Ropeless elevator building to building mobility system
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsRandy Roberts, Kiron Bhaskar
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Abstract
A system for moving an elevator car between locations including: a propulsion system configured to move the elevator car through an elevator shaft; and an elevator car mobility system configured to move an elevator car from a first location to a second location, the elevator car mobility system including: an elevator containment slot to receive the elevator car and the propulsion system of the elevator car when the elevator containment slot is aligned with the elevator shaft.
Claims20
A system for moving an elevator car between locations, the system comprising:
- a propulsion system configured to move the elevator car through an elevator shaft;
- and
- an elevator car mobility system configured to move an elevator car from a first location to a second location, the elevator car mobility system comprising:
- an elevator containment slot to receive the elevator car and the propulsion system of the elevator car when the elevator containment slot is aligned with the elevator shaft.
A method of moving an elevator car between locations, the method comprising:
- moving an elevator car mobility system to a first location to pick up the elevator car;
- aligning an elevator car containment slot within the elevator car mobility system with an elevator shaft of an elevator system of the first location;
- moving, using a propulsion system, the elevator car from the elevator shaft into the elevator car containment slot;
- and
- moving the elevator car mobility system with the elevator car within the elevator containment slot to a second location.
A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- moving an elevator car mobility system to a first location to pick up an elevator car;
- aligning an elevator car containment slot within the elevator car mobility system with an elevator shaft of an elevator system of the first location;
- moving, using a propulsion system, the elevator car from the elevator shaft into the elevator car containment slot;
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- moving the elevator car mobility system with the elevator car within the elevator containment slot to a second location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.