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US 2001/0040071 A1Published application
Elevator with governor
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorHIROTADA SASAKI
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Abstract
An elevator including a movable unit, such as a passenger cage or a counterweight balancing the passenger cage, configured to ascend and descend in an elevator shaft by operation of a drive unit, and a governor configured to detect the speed of the movable unit to effect an emergency stop of the movable unit, the governor being fixed by means of a support member to a guide rail extending along the elevator shaft.
Claims13
An elevator comprising:
- a drive unit;
- a movable unit configured to ascend and descend in an elevator shaft by operation of the drive unit;
- a guide rail extending along the elevator shaft;
- and
- a governor configured to detect the speed of the movable unit to effect an emergency stop of the movable unit;
- and
- a support member fixing the governor to the guide rail.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.