Modernizing an elevator installation
AssigneeInventio AG
InventorsPaul Friedli, Dennys Taiana
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Abstract
A method for modernizing an elevator installation includes installing story terminals for input of a destination story on the stories of the building, which terminals are so coupled with an elevator control device connected with an input device in the elevator cage that, at least in a standard mode, after input of the destination story call detected by means of the story terminal, the cage automatically travels to the selected destination story, and in that case a story selection in the cage by use of the input device is no longer possible. The indicating means for representing selected stories of the input device are so incorporated in the control system that the indicating means, after input of a story call by way of the story terminal, are activated.
Claims13
An elevator modernization method, comprising:
- installing a story terminal on a story of a building that is served by an elevator installation, the story terminal being for input of a destination story call, the elevator installation comprising a control device and a cage disposed in a shaft, an input device being located in the cage, the input device being coupled to the control device to provide call information to the control device;
- deactivating one or more call input buttons on the input device, such that the one or more call input buttons do not provide call information that is used by the control device in scheduling movement of the elevator cage;
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- configuring the control device to use the one or more input buttons to indicate a destination of the cage according to the destination story call.
An elevator installation comprising:
- an elevator car disposed in a shaft;
- a story terminal installed on a story of a building served by the elevator installation;
- an input device located inside the elevator car, the input device comprising one or more call input regions;
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- an elevator control device coupled to the story terminal and to the input device, the elevator control device being programmed to determine a destination story for the elevator car based on input from the story terminal and further programmed to indicate the destination story using at least one of the one or more call input regions.
One or more computer-readable storage media having encoded thereon instructions that, when executed by an elevator control device of an elevator installation, cause the elevator control device to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving a destination input from a story terminal coupled to the elevator control device, the story terminal being located on a story of a building served by the elevator installation;
- determining a destination for an elevator car of the elevator installation based on the received destination input;
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- instructing an input panel in the elevator car to display an indication of the destination for the elevator car using a call input region of the input panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.