Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle inventions 03/07

20070068740 - Fluid supply hose coupling structure for a materials handling vehicle: A materials handling vehicle is provided comprising a base, a movable carriage assembly, and a ram/cylinder assembly coupled to the carriage assembly to effect movement of the carriage assembly. The ram/cylinder assembly comprises a cylinder having an opening in a side wall for receiving a fluid, a ram disposed in... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20070068741 - Pressure sensor for automatic door: A pressure sensor for automatic doors including at least one film pressure sensor layer and one or more first protective layer overlaying the film pressure sensor layer. The pressures sensor layer and first protective layer(s) are secured to the closing edge of an automatic door. The film pressure sensor layer... Agent: Howard C. Miskin C/o Stoll, Miskin, & Badie

20070062762 - Elevator installation with drivebelt pulley and flat-beltlike suspension means: An elevator installation with a drivebelt sheave and a flat-beltlike suspension member that bears the elevator car and the counterweight, and that is driven by the drivebelt sheave. A running surface or a partial running surface of the drivebelt sheave, via which the flat-beltlike suspension member rests on the drivebelt... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson PC

20070062763 - Elevator rail joint detector and elevator system: In an elevator apparatus, a guide rail has a plurality of unit rails that are vertically connected to each other. A car is provided with a rail joint detecting device mounted on the car, for detecting the presence/absence of a joint between each of the unit rails. The rail joint... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070056803 - Stairlifts: The invention provides a swivel mechanism (10) for inclusion between the carriage (14and chair 12) of a stairlift. The mechanism preferably includes two pivot axes, each offset from the center line of the chair so as to reduce the rearward intrusion when the chair is swivelled. The swivel action is... Agent: Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A.

20070056804 - Lifting device especially a lift or a lifting platform: The invention relates to a lifting device, especially a lift or a lifting platform, comprising a displacement unit (1, 6, 7, 8) for at least partially displacing a load in a vertical manner. The displacement device (1, 6, 7, 8) comprises at least one first drive motor (1) comprising a... Agent: William D Breneman Breneman & Georges

20070056805 - Elevator governor device: An elevator governor includes a selectively powered switch (60) that is activated when an elevator car moves at a speed that exceeds a selected limit. The speed limit is lower than normally expected car speeds during normal elevator operation. The switch (60) is activated by a moving member (66) that... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20070056806 - Elevator apparatus: In an elevator apparatus, a car is mounted with an safety device for bringing the car to an emergency stop. A drive unit for raising and lowering the car is controlled by a drive control portion. A safety control portion detects an abnormality in the elevator and outputs an actuation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070056807 - Device with movable door seal for a displaceable door of an elevator installation and an elevator installation with such a device: A device moves a door seal for a displaceable door panel of an elevator car in an elevator installation with an elevator shaft having shaft doors. The movable door seal is arranged so that the door panel in a closed state is sealed off. The device includes an entrainer unit... Agent: Butzel Long

20070056808 - Actuator driving method and actuator driving circuit: An actuator has a driving first coil and a driving second coil. A capacitor is electrically connected to both the first coil and the second coil through a discharge switch using electric power accumulated in a capacitor which can be selectively supplied. An operation portion for operating the discharge switch... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070056809 - Elevator car with maintenance platform and method for maintenance of the elevator installation: An elevator car has a car roof which can be lowered into the passenger compartment by means of a drive device and in the lowered position serves as a platform for the maintenance personnel for the performance of maintenance and checking operations. The drive device actuates several Bowden pulls.... Agent: Butzel Long

20070056810 - Method for carrying out maintenance and inspection operations at an elevator installation: A method for carrying out maintenance and inspection operations at an elevator installation with an elevator car having a lowerable car roof that serves as maintenance platform, comprises at least the following steps: positioning the elevator car at a selected floor and opening the elevator doors; lowering the car roof... Agent: Butzel Long

20070051562 - Stairlifts: The present invention enhances the safety of a stairlift by providing a proximity sensor (40, 42) to detect the proximity of users and other objects to a stairlift carriage (20) and to render remote call controls (22, 24) inoperative. A chair occupancy sensor may also be provided to prevent inadvertent... Agent: Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.a.

20070051563 - Remotely resettable ropeless emergency stopping device for an elevator: A brake mechanism (10) for an elevator (2) is activated in response to an electronic control signal to prevent movement of an elevator car (16) under predetermined conditions. The brake mechanism is preferably a safety mechanism (10) and does not require a governor sheave, a governor rope, or a tension... Agent: Kerrie A. Laba Carlson, Gaskey & Olds

20070051564 - Suspension means end connector for an elevator: A suspension means end connector has first and second wrapping elements that are arranged in a housing, the housing may have a back wall, side walls and an open side housing that is opposite to the back wall. The side walls taper and form with the back wall and a... Agent: Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell LLP

20070045050 - Elevator call button with tactile feedback: An elevator call button assembly (20) includes at least one call button (50) having a surface (70) that is touchable by an individual to indicate a desired call in the elevator system. A responder (56) provides a tactile indication that the call has been successfully placed. In one example, the... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20070045051 - Method of transporting a user by a transport means, particularly by an elevator: A method of transporting a user by a transport, particularly by an elevator, utilizes a control unit, a first communications unit and a mobile second communications unit carried by the user. A destination call is lodged at the control unit by the second communications unit. The control unit determines at... Agent: Butzel Long

20070045052 - Elevator car dispatching including passenger destination information and a fuzzy logic algorithm: An elevator system (20) includes a controller (36) that uses one of a plurality of fuzzy logic algorithms for assigning an elevator car (22-28) to service a passenger request. A disclosed example uses a passenger's desired destination as indicated by the passenger service request prior to the passenger entering an... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070045053 - Elevator apparatus: In an elevator apparatus, a car guide rail for guiding a car when the car is raised and lowered is installed within a hoistway. The car is mounted with a car guide shoe for engaging with the car guide rail. On a vertical projection plane, a recess is provided in... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC