Elevator maintenance access systems for elevators
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsAurelien Fauconnet, Frederic Beauchaud, Amine Badaoui
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Abstract
Methods and system for operating an elevator include receiving input regarding a maintenance action at an access control module, the input including a first predetermined maintenance position, the first predetermined maintenance position being a position of the elevator car within an elevator shaft relative to a landing, conveying an elevator car to the first predetermined maintenance position, disabling an access prevention device of a landing door lock, and opening a landing door at the landing to enable access to the elevator car positioned at the first predetermined maintenance position.
Claims15
A method of operating an elevator system comprising:
- receiving input regarding a maintenance action at an access control module, the input including a first predetermined maintenance position, the first predetermined maintenance position being a position of the elevator car within an elevator shaft relative to a landing;
- conveying an elevator car to the first predetermined maintenance position;
- disabling an access prevention device of a landing door lock;
- and
- opening a landing door at the landing to enable access to the elevator car positioned at the first predetermined maintenance position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.