Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle inventions 12/06

20060289239 - Hydraulic double ram lifting platform: The invention relates to a hydraulic double ram lifting platform with two cylinder tubes (3), moving together in the vertical direction (17), a hydraulically-operated lifting unit (18), for each cylinder tube (3), a mechanical cross-support (5), for both lifting units (18) to ensure synchronisation of both cylinder tubes (3) and... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20060289240 - Elevator system with multiple cars in the same hoistway: The elevator system of this present invention for multistory buildings includes at least one elevator shaft, each of which having a plurality of elevator units and at least one interlocking means, and an elevator control system. The elevator unit includes an elevator car and its guide means, a counterweight and... Agent: Masami Sakita

20060289241 - Elevator system: In an elevator apparatus, a control device obtains car information including at least one of car position information and car speed information based on a main detection signal from a main sensor unit. An auxiliary sensor unit detects arrival of a car at a preset reference position with in a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060289242 - Elevator installation with device for noise reduction: An elevator installation includes an elevator car that moves in an elevator shaft with shaft doors and which car has at least one car apron arranged parallel to a plane of a shaft wall at a shaft door side. A device for reducing noises generated by the air flow arising... Agent: Butzel Long

20060289243 - Group controller of elevators: In an elevator group supervisory control apparatus, an estimation processing unit determines an estimated in-cage load in departing from a departure floor and estimates at least one of speed, acceleration, and jerk rate of the car in accordance with the estimated in-cage load to determine an estimated arrival time. An... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20060289244 - Elevator car with lowerable roof: An elevator car has a lowerable car roof portion serving in the lowered state as a maintenance platform. The lowerable car roof portion is stabilized in the lowered position against movements in a horizontal plane by at least one mechanical device engaging the car roof portion and inner walls of... Agent: Butzel Long

20060289245 - Balancing apparatus for elevator: A balancing apparatus includes a frame body (1), a first weight (2) and a second weight (3) separated from each other vertically in the frame body (1). The first weight (2) is connected to the frame body (1) through elastic bodies (41, 42). The elastic bodies (41, 42) are always... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060289246 - Elevator: An elevator and a method, said elevator being preferably an elevator without machine room, and wherein the elevator car is supported by a set of hoisting ropes comprising one rope or a number of parallel ropes. The elevator has a traction sheave which moves the elevator car by means of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060289247 - Elevator system: The present invention provides an elevator. The elevator includes a car having a plurality of side walls coupled to a guide rail. A plurality of wall structures is connected to the guide rail, where a plurality of cavities is located in between the plurality of wall structures and the plurality... Agent: Dwayne L Bentley Law Office Of Dwayne L Bentley

20060283669 - Elevating load platforms: An elevating load platform comprising a base member and a load supporting member interconnected by a linkage means that facilitates vertical movement of the load supporting member generally parallel to the base member, and a plurality of coil springs positioned to urge the load supporting member upwardly relative to the... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20060283670 - Electromagnetic/ultrasonic roll-calling/answering (eura) system for elevator positioning: A positioning system for an elevator cab (37) includes transponder modules (10) having a unique ID for receiving a signal (39) and emitting an ultrasonic signal when the signal is equivalent to the unique ID with a determination of position based on the time duration of the signals.... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (utc)

20060272901 - Manipulator for positioning a test head, particularly at a tester: A manipulator for positioning a test head, particularly at a tester is provided with positioning means for positioning the test head three-dimensionally and forming a mount. The manipulator comprises furthermore a cradle to which the test head can be secured and which is connected to the positioning means. The cradle... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20060272902 - Elevator car operating panels: In an elevator, the buttons are disposed on an operating panel. In hallways, the call buttons are disposed on the call panel. Their function is to serve the user to select a preferred floor or to call the elevator car. In this invention, the floor selection and elevator call buttons... Agent: Slavomir Olejar