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US 2024/0174484 A1Published application
Elevator system and method of monitoring
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorsHenri WENLIN, Tapani TALONEN
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Abstract
An elevator system includes an elevator car, and a hoisting machine moving the elevator car in a hoistway. To simplify maintenance work of the hoisting machine, the elevator system includes an acceleration sensor connected to the hoisting machine, and a computing unit which is responsive to a signal provided by the acceleration sensor and which sends condition data based on a predetermined processing of the signal.
Claims20
An elevator system, comprising:
- an elevator car;
- a hoisting machine moving the elevator car in a hoistway;
- an acceleration sensor connected to the hoisting machine;
- and
- a computing units, being responsive to a signal provided by the acceleration sensor and sending condition data based on a predetermined processing of the signal.
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A method of monitoring an elevator system, wherein the method comprises:
- obtaining a signal from an acceleration sensor connected to a hoisting machine of an elevator car;
- processing the signal to obtain condition data;
- and
- sending the condition data when the result of the processing fulfils at least one predetermined criterion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.