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US 12,351,431 B2Granted
Systems and methods for adjusting elevator load settings
AssigneeAppana Industries LLC
InventorAmarnauth Appana, Jr.
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Abstract
A method of adjusting a load setting of an elevator car that includes receiving one or more load measurements associated with the elevator car and determining a maximum load of the elevator car from the one or more load measurements. The method further includes generating a modified load setting for the elevator car based on the maximum load and replacing the load setting of the elevator car with the modified load setting.
Claims18
A method of adjusting a load setting of an elevator car, comprising:
- receiving one or more load measurements associated with the elevator car during a predefined period;
- determining a maximum load of the elevator car from the one or more load measurements such that the maximum load of the elevator car is associated with the predefined period;
- generating a modified load setting for the elevator car based on the maximum load;
- and
- replacing the load setting of the elevator car with the modified load setting for the predefined period.
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A method of operating a plurality of elevator cars, comprising:
- measuring one or more load measurements of each of the plurality of elevator cars during a predefined period;
- determining a maximum load of each of the plurality of elevator cars from the one or more load measurements of each of the plurality of elevator cars such that the maximum load for each of the plurality of elevator cars is associated with the predefined period;
- generating a modified load setting for each of the plurality of elevator cars based on the respective maximum load of each of the plurality of elevator cars;
- and
- activating the modified load setting of each of the plurality of elevator cars in place of an original load setting during the predefined period such that the modified load setting replaces the original load setting for the predefined period, wherein the modified load setting defines an adjusted capacity of each of the plurality of elevator cars relative to the load setting.
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A method for positioning an elevator car, the method comprising:
- determining an occupancy of each of a plurality of locations by:
- determining a first load measurement of the elevator car upon arriving at each of the plurality of locations;
- determining a second load measurement of the elevator car upon departing from each of the plurality of locations;
- and
- determining a difference between the first load measurement and the second load measurement;
- and
- moving the elevator car to a first location with a total occupancy that is greater than the occupancy at each respective location of the plurality of locations when the elevator car is in an inactive state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.