Elevator system with cabin divider
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsHiromitsu Miyajima, Atsushi Yamada, Keiji Hashimoto
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Abstract
An elevator system, having: an elevator car, the elevator car including: a front end that includes a front doorway; an aft end that includes an aft doorway; and a cabin extending from the front end to the aft end; and a divider system operationally coupled to the elevator car within the cabin, intermediate the front and aft ends, that is operational to transition between: a retracted state, where the cabin is undivided; and a deployed state where the divider system divides the cabin into a front zone that is accessible by the front doorway and an aft zone that is accessible by the aft doorway.
Claims19
An elevator system comprising:
- an elevator car, the elevator car including:
- a front end that includes a front doorway;
- an aft end that includes an aft doorway;
- and
- a cabin extending from the front end to the aft end;
- and
- a divider system operationally coupled to the elevator car within the cabin, intermediate the front and aft ends, that is operational to transition between:
- a retracted state, where the cabin is undivided;
- and
- a deployed state where the divider system divides the cabin into a front zone that is accessible by the front doorway and an aft zone that is accessible by the aft doorway,
- a controller onboard the elevator car, operationally coupled to the divider system and configured to control the divider system to transition between the deployed state and the retracted state.
A method of operating an elevator system with a controller operationally connected to an elevator car, the method comprising:
- controlling a divider system onboard the elevator car, within a cabin of the elevator car, between a front end having a front doorway and an aft end having an aft doorway, to transition between a deployed state and a retracted state, wherein
- in the retracted state, the cabin is undivided;
- and
- in the deployed state, the divider system divides the cabin into a front zone that is accessible by the front doorway and an aft zone that is accessible by the aft doorway,
- wherein the controller is onboard the elevator car and operationally coupled to the divider system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.