Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle inventions 04/07

20070089934 - Lifting mast for a lift truck: A lifting mast, in particular for a high-bay stacker lift truck, having a fixed mast and at least one extendable mast section with two parallel lift drives arranged laterally on the mast for extending the mast section from the fixed mast and a control for the lift drives, wherein a... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070089935 - Controller of one-shaft multi-car system elevator: It is an object of the present invention to provide a control apparatus for a one-shaft multi-car system elevator in which a plurality of cars operate in one shaft, the control device being capable of efficient group control while avoiding collisions and minimizing the occurrence of confinement of passengers. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070089936 - Elevator car assembly having an adjustable platform: An elevator car assembly (14) includes a frame (28) having a horizontal plank beam (36) beneath a platform assembly (34). A plurality of braces (44) support the platform assembly (34) relative to the frame. The braces (44) include at least one slot associated with a fastener (58, 60) to facilitate... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20070089937 - Emergency brake device for elevator: An emergency brake device for an elevator includes a brake shoe portion provided inside a sheave 1 or deflector sheave of an elevator and having a brake shoe 5a at a lower end of the brake shoe portion, the brake shoe generating a braking force due to friction upon abutting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070089938 - Control device of elevator: In an elevator control apparatus, the presence/absence of an abnormality in an elevator is monitored by an abnormality monitoring portion. The abnormality monitoring portion makes a determination on the presence/absence of an abnormality in the elevator based on information from a sensor, and outputs a signal for stopping a car... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070089939 - Control panel for an elevator, and elevator with such a control panel: A control panel for an elevator has at least one pressure-sensitive action field in order to trigger an action by pressing. The control panel has a layered construction with a top plate, a base plate and a piezo element. An opening is provided in the top plate to define the... Agent: Butzel Long

20070084671 - Lift system: The invention relates to a lift system wherein a drive unit (2) drives, by means of a driving disk (4.1), a flat belt-type carrier means (12.1, 12.2) which carries the lift cage (3). Said flat belt-type carrier means comprises several ribs (20.1, 20.2) which extend in a parallel manner in... Agent: Wolff & Samson

20070084672 - Self-propelled elevator: In a self-propelled elevator for essentially the transport of persons with a cabin (11) to which at least one drive (14) is assigned, the at least one drive (14) engages with a linear guide (8), directly or indirectly, via at least one drive element (13) for linear driving of the... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070084673 - Method and apparatus to prevent or minimize the entrapment of passengers in elevators during a power failure: The invention provides a system and method for handling power outages in a multiple car elevator system in a building having a plurality of floors. The system includes an energy calculator connected to the elevators, and determines a total energy of the elevator system, a total energy required to handle... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070084674 - Identification of incoming peak traffic: The present invention relates to a method whereby the service capacity of the elevator system of a building can be improved by effectively identifying an incoming peak traffic situation. When the number of elevator passengers arriving to the lobby floor of the building exceeds a given peak traffic threshold value,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070084675 - Rf id and low resolution ccd sensor based positioning system: An apparatus and method for measuring a position of a moveable platform comprising a plurality of RFID tags encoded with location information situated at known locations and a plurality of visual markers situated at precise, known locations. An RF reader attached to a moveable platform reads the RFID tags to... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070080024 - Pulley assembly for a materials handling vehicle mast assembly: A materials handling vehicle is provided comprising a base and a mast assembly coupled to the base. The mast assembly comprises a weldment having a pulley assembly coupled to the weldment. The pulley assembly includes a pulley element over which one or more elongated members extend, a shaft capable of... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20070080025 - Drive control apparatus for forklift: A drive control apparatus for a forklift. Based on the load state, it is determined whether to limit a maximum vehicle speed and an acceleration/deceleration during traveling of the forklift. Limitation contents regarding the maximum vehicle speed and the acceleration/deceleration is determined based on a determination result of whether to... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070080026 - Conveying installation and method of placing a conveying installation in operation: A method for placing a conveying installation in operation, the conveying installation including several components, wherein at least one conveying mechanism, an installation control and a drive are included. A control program suitable for different installation controls contains different control functions. The control program is executed in the installation control... Agent: Klaus P. Stoffel Wolff & Samson PC

20070080027 - Method for controlling the elevators in an elevator group: The present invention relates to a method for controlling the elevators of an elevator group in a building divided into zones comprising different floors in such manner that, at the passenger's departure floor, the elevators are given calls to floors beyond the zone limits of the departure zone. According to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch