US 8,556,042 B2 · Elevator coupled to building door

Abstract

The method of operating an elevator system in a building with at least one building door (2, 2′, 2″) includes through opening and/or closing the building door (2, 2′, 2″) the floor (1, 1′, 1″) of the opened and/or closed building door (2, 2′, 2″) is defined as the start floor and a destination call for an elevator car (7) to the start floor is actuated. As soon as the elevator car (7) has reached the start floor, an elevator door (3, 3′, 3″) of the start floor is opened. As soon as at least one user has entered the elevator car (7), the opened elevator door (3, 3′, 3″) is closed and the user is conveyed by the elevator car (7) to a destination floor, wherein the destination floor is defined by a destination call stored for a start floor.

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Dependent claims

A method of operating an elevator system in a building with at least two floors, at least one elevator door, and at least one building door, comprising the steps of:

by opening and/or closing a building door of the building, defining the floor of the opened and/or closed building door as the start floor;
actuating a start call for an elevator car to move to the start floor;
as soon as the elevator car has reached the start floor, opening an elevator door of the start floor;
and
activating a predefined destination call, which is stored for the start floor.

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An elevator system in a building with at least two floors, at least one elevator door and at least one building door, comprising:

a building door of the building having a door sensor, the door sensor detecting opening and/or dosing of the building door and for a detected opening and/or closing of the building door communicating a door signal to an elevator control;
the elevator control defining a floor of the communicated door signal as a start floor, and the elevator control actuating a start call for an elevator car to move to the start floor;
an elevator sensor detecting arrival of the elevator car in the start floor, and the elevator sensor communicating for a detected arrival of the elevator car in the start floor an elevator car signal to the elevator control;
and
the elevator control upon communication of the elevator car signal opening an elevator door of the start floor and the elevator control actuating a predefined destination call, which is stored for the start floor, for the elevator car to move to a destination floor.

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A method of retrofitting an elevator system in a building with at least two floors, at least one elevator door, at least one building door, an elevator car, an elevator control and an elevator sensor, comprising the steps of:

installing a door sensor in the at least one building door;
installing a control in the building;
detecting opening and/or closing of the at least one building door by the door sensor;
communicating for a detected opening and/or closing of the building door a door signal to the control by the door sensor;
defining a floor of the communicated door signal as a start floor by the control;
actuating a start call for the elevator car to move to the start floor by the control;
detecting arrival of the elevator car in the start floor by the elevator sensor;
communicating for the detected arrival of the elevator car in the start floor an elevator car signal to the elevator control by the elevator sensor;
opening the elevator door of the start floor by the elevator control upon communication of the elevator car signal;
and
activating a predefined destination call, which is stored for the start floor, to a destination floor for the elevator car by the control.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Elevator coupled to building door

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Abstract

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