Safety equipment for multimobile elevator groups
AssigneeInventio AG
InventorPatrick Chenais
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Abstract
With this safety equipment in a multimobile elevator group, collisions between cars (C1 . . . CN) operating in the same shaft (1) can be prevented. For this purpose, each car (C1 . . . CN) is equipped with a safety module (10). In order not to cause any collision in the case of a stop command of a car (C1 . . . CN), the safety module (10) must know the positions and speeds of the other cars (C1 . . . CN) at all times. A decision module (12) integrated into the safety module (10) processes the travel data received by way of the communications system (11) and decides whether a car (C1 . . . CN) may or may not stop. Furthermore, the decision module (12) determines the braking behavior of a car (C1 . . . CN) (normal stop, emergency stop or triggering of the car-catching device).
Claims9
Safety equipment for a multimobile elevator group, in which several elevator cars (C1 . . . CN) operate over several floors (E1 . . . EN) at the same time in at least one shaft, wherein each car (C1 . . . CN) is driven by an individual independent drive (2) and provided with an individual brake, characterized in, that at least one safety module (10) computes the necessary braking behavior of the cars (C1 . . . CN) from actual travel data of the cars (C1 . . . CN), in particular the car position and speed, on the basis of stop requests so that collisions between the cars (C1 . . . CN) can be prevented and that preferably each car is provided with an individual safety module (10).
Safety equipment for a multimobile elevator group, in which at least two elevator cars (C1 . . . CN) operate over several floors (E1 . . . EN) at the same time in at least one shaft, wherein each elevator car is driven by an individual independent drive (2) and provided with an individual brake, the drive and the brake being connected to and operated by an elevator control (20), comprising:
- at least one safety module (10) for computing necessary braking behavior of each of the at least two elevator cars (C1 . . . CN) when the elevator cars are travelling in the same shaft at the same time, said safety module being responsive to shaft information data (26) of the elevator cars, in particular the car position and speed, and to stop requests received from the elevator control (20), the stop requests including a normal floor stop to a call, an emergency stop and an engagement of a car-catching device;
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- a decision module (12) in said safety module (10) and in communication with the elevator car brakes for controlling braking of the elevator cars in response to said computed braking behavior to prevent collisions between the elevator cars.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.