Bounce damper for an elevator system
AssigneeTk Escalator Norte, S.A.
InventorsEduardo Moran Garcia, Luis Moran Bernardo
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a bounce damper for an elevator car being moveable by a tension member, including a first element configured to be fastened to the elevator car, a second element configured to be fastened to or to be in mechanic connection to an elevator shaft, wherein the first element and the second element are located adjacent to each other, wherein one out of the elements is an electromagnet and the other element is an armature being attracted to the electromagnet in the first horizontal direction by a magnetic force, when the electromagnet is magnetized, and wherein the electromagnet and the armature are spaced apart from each other in the first horizontal direction by a gap, when the electromagnet is magnetized.
Claims7
A bounce damper for an elevator car being moveable in a vertical extending elevator shaft by a tension member, the bounce damper comprising:
- a first element configured to be fastened to the elevator car;
- and
- at least one second element configured to be fastened to or to be in mechanic connection to the elevator shaft at a stop of the elevator car;
- wherein, when the elevator car is at the stop, the first element and the second element are located adjacent to each other in a first horizontal direction defining a first gap;
- wherein one out of the first element or second element is an electromagnet;
- wherein the other out of the first element or second element is an armature being attracted to the electromagnet and moved in the first horizontal direction by a magnetic force, when the electromagnet is magnetized;
- and
- wherein the electromagnet and the armature are spaced apart from each other in the first horizontal direction by a second gap that is maintained, when the electromagnet is magnetized,
- wherein the first gap is wider than the second gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.