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US 12,565,402 B2Granted
Multi-car elevator system
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsAkiyuki Toritani, Kazunori Washio
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Abstract
Provided is a multi-car elevator system including: a plurality of cars to be raised and lowered in the same hoistway; and an inspection work controller. The inspection work controller is operated by a worker so as to move an operation target car which is one of the plurality of cars. Further, the operation target car is allowed to be selected from two or more of the cars in a work area in which the worker is present.
Claims12
A multi-car elevator system, comprising:
- a plurality of cars to be raised and lowered in the same hoistway;
- and
- an inspection work controller to be operated by a worker to move an operation target car being one of the plurality of cars,
- wherein the operation target car is allowed to be selected from two or more of the plurality of cars in a work area in which the worker is present based on an operation performed by the worker using a car switching unit included in the inspection work controller, and
- wherein the car switching unit is configured to select one car from the two or more of the plurality of cars in the work area as the operation target car.
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A multi-car elevator system, comprising:
- a plurality of cars to be raised and lowered in the same hoistway;
- and
- an inspection work controller to be operated by a worker to move an operation target car being one of the plurality of cars,
- wherein the operation target car is allowed to be selected from two or more of the plurality of cars in a work area in which the worker is present based on an operation performed by the worker using the inspection work controller,
- wherein, in the work area, a plurality of connectors to be connected to the inspection work controller are provided,
- wherein the operation target car is allowed to be selected based on the operation performed by the worker using the inspection work controller connected to one of the plurality of connectors,
- wherein the multi-car elevator system further comprises a plurality of operation control devices which are installed in a machine room serving as the work area, and are configured to control operations of the plurality of cars, respectively, and
- wherein the plurality of connectors are attached to the plurality of operation control devices, respectively.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.