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US 2020/0002132 A1Published application
Hybrid compensation member
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsDaniel A. Mosher, Kyle B. Martin, Wenping Zhao
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Abstract
A compensation and tie-down member for an elevator system includes one or more lightweight compensation tension elements having a first tensile strength/unit mass/unit length, and one or more heavier weight compensation tension elements having a second tensile strength/unit mass/unit length less than the first tensile strength/unit mass/unit length.
Claims20
A compensation and tie-down member for an elevator system, comprising:
- one or more lightweight compensation tension elements having a first tensile strength/unit mass/unit length;
- and
- one or more heavier weight compensation tension elements having a second tensile strength/unit mass/unit length less than the first tensile strength/unit mass/unit length.
An elevator system, comprising:
- a hoistway;
- an elevator car movable along the hoistway;
- one or more suspension members operably connected to the elevator car to move the elevator car along the hoistway;
- a counterweight operably connected to the elevator car via the one or more suspension members;
- and
- one or more compensation and tie-down members operably connected to the elevator car and the counterweight to stabilize operation of the elevator system, the one or more compensation and tie-down members including:
- one or more lightweight compensation tension elements having a first tensile strength/unit mass/unit length;
- and
- one or more heavier weight compensation tension elements having a second tensile strength/unit mass/unit length less than the first tensile strength/unit mass/unit length.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.