Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle inventions 09/06

20060207835 - Elevator with rollers having selectively variable hardness: An elevator system includes a roller (16) having a hardness that varies responsive to a magnetic field (20). The roller (16) rolls along a guide rail (28) to maintain a desired orientation of the elevator car (12). In one example, the roller (16) includes a membrane (30) defining a generally...

20060207836 - Destination floor indicator of elevator: An elevator destination floor display unit is installed in an elevator boarding area or an elevator car. The elevator destination floor display unit has a display portion having a screen selectively displaying destination floor representations relating to all floors, and a display control portion which arranges and displays, in a...

20060207837 - Inductively coupled power, useful for wireless elevator hall fixtures: Fixtures (27) at a doorway of a landing are formed integrally with a frame (17). Power is provided by an inductive coupler (32) having a core (70) and primary (75). The core is thin ferrite and extend significantly beyond the coils in the plane the coils are wound, to provide...

20060201748 - Method and apparatus for adjusting the distance between the cars of a double-deck elevator: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for adjusting the inter-car distance in a double-deck elevator provided with hoisting ropes (2), in which elevator the hoisting ropes (2) move a car frame (3) supporting the elevator cars (6 and 7) along guide rails (5). The vertical inter-car distance between...

20060201749 - Elevator: An elevator is described, comprising a first series connected pulley set installed in a fixing frame, a carriage located below the first series connected pulley set, a second series connected pulley set installed on the top of the carriage, a rotary wheel installed in the carriage and a steel rope....

20060201750 - Elevator apparatus drive unit, elevator apparatus, elevator apparatus installation method, and elevator apparatus maintenance inspection method: In an elevator apparatus, a cover body is disposed on an opening portion of a top portion of a hoistway. A driving machine for raising and lowering a car and a counterweight is supported by the cover body. The driving machine has: a driving machine main body; and a drive...

20060201751 - Fire control system of elevator: Provided is a fire control system of an elevator which rescues remainders in a building to a rescue floor by causing an elevator car to perform evacuating operations when a fire detector installed in the building works, characterized in that the fire control system of an elevator includes: individual identification...

20060201752 - Rescue braking system: A rescue braking system provides a smoother elevator car movement by mechanically lifting or applying the brake. The rescue braking system incrementally adjusts the force applied to the brake based on the speed and location of the elevator car. Therefore, it can effectively eliminate the jerky vibration and noises caused...

20060196730 - Elevator and arrangement: An elevator having an elevator car with a car frame on which are mounted a first set of diverting pulleys from which the hoisting ropes go downwards and a second set of diverting pulleys from which the hoisting ropes go upwards. The rope tension in the rope portions going from...

20060196731 - Elevator apparatus: An elevator rope includes an inner layer rope having inner layer strands in which steel wires are twisted together for suspending a car of an elevator apparatus. An inner layer cladding made of a resin covers a periphery of the inner layer rope. A outer layer on a peripheral portion...

20060196732 - Elevator dispatching with balanced passenger perception of waiting: A perceived waiting time for a hall call to be answered by a car is determined as a constant times the square (46) of the summation (45) of remaining response time (39) and the amount of time that has expired since the call was registered (38). The time that may...

20060196733 - Elevator door system: An elevator door system includes an elevator car having a front face defining a door opening. At least one elevator door is coupled to the front face of the elevator car for movement between an open position exposing the door opening and a closed position covering the door opening. At...

20060196734 - Elevator traffic control: An elevator system includes a plurality of cars (22-30) that are capable of serving a plurality of floors (2-17). A controller (42) groups the floors into a plurality of sectors (S1-S4). The controller (42) assigns a particular car to a particular sector. The sectors include at least one sector that...

20060196735 - Frameless elevator cab and methods: A frameless elevator cab includes a top wall, a bottom wall, and a plurality of sidewalls. Ones of the sidewalls are connected to and/or attached to each other with fastener members adapted and configured to provide multi-dimensional stability therebetween. In assembled frameless elevator cabs of the invention, the frameless elevator...

20060196730 - Elevator and arrangement: An elevator having an elevator car with a car frame on which are mounted a first set of diverting pulleys from which the hoisting ropes go downwards and a second set of diverting pulleys from which the hoisting ropes go upwards. The rope tension in the rope portions going from...

20060196731 - Elevator apparatus: An elevator rope includes an inner layer rope having inner layer strands in which steel wires are twisted together for suspending a car of an elevator apparatus. An inner layer cladding made of a resin covers a periphery of the inner layer rope. A outer layer on a peripheral portion...

20060196732 - Elevator dispatching with balanced passenger perception of waiting: A perceived waiting time for a hall call to be answered by a car is determined as a constant times the square (46) of the summation (45) of remaining response time (39) and the amount of time that has expired since the call was registered (38). The time that may...

20060196733 - Elevator door system: An elevator door system includes an elevator car having a front face defining a door opening. At least one elevator door is coupled to the front face of the elevator car for movement between an open position exposing the door opening and a closed position covering the door opening. At...

20060196734 - Elevator traffic control: An elevator system includes a plurality of cars (22-30) that are capable of serving a plurality of floors (2-17). A controller (42) groups the floors into a plurality of sectors (S1-S4). The controller (42) assigns a particular car to a particular sector. The sectors include at least one sector that...

20060196735 - Frameless elevator cab and methods: A frameless elevator cab includes a top wall, a bottom wall, and a plurality of sidewalls. Ones of the sidewalls are connected to and/or attached to each other with fastener members adapted and configured to provide multi-dimensional stability therebetween. In assembled frameless elevator cabs of the invention, the frameless elevator...