Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle inventions 11/07

20070272488 - Stairlifts: The invention provides a stairlift having a rail which terminates, at its lower end, on or closely adjacent the lower step of a staircase. This rail is combined with a carriage and footrest which allows the footrest to be positioned below the level of the first step. The arrangement obviates... Agent: Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A.

20070272487 - Tilt mechanism for the movable part of a stairlift guide: The present invention relates to a device for transport along a staircase of persons and/or goods, which staircase extends between two platforms, and wherein the device includes: a guide which in the arranged situation extends at least along the staircase, a stationary segment and at least one tiltable segment; a... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070272489 - Portable vehicle lift: The disclosed invention is a portable vehicle lift for elevating a motor vehicle. The lift includes spaced apart beams which are positioned under the vehicle, each beam has a plurality of hinged strut pairs, each with associated threaded drive nuts. Strut pairs are moved together or apart by directionally rotating... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070272490 - Platform lifting mechanism provided with a driving pulley and corresponding driving system: The invention relates to a traction sheave hoist for a platform operated by at least two ropes 5, having a traction sheave 13 that can be driven by a motor, at least a first rope groove and a second rope groove 17 being formed around the traction sheave-circumference, and a... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070272491 - Elevator brake and brake control circuit: A control circuit for controlling an electromechanical elevator brake, said control circuit comprising at least one brake coil (L1), a direct-voltage source (BR1), a semiconductor switch arrangement and a control unit (CO1) for controlling the circuit, and which circuit further comprises a current measuring unit (IM1) producing current data that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070272492 - Electrical elevator rescue system: Elevator (2) comprising a car (4), a counterweight (6), a hoisting rope (8) for suspending the car (4) and the counterweight (6), a drive motor (10), a motor drive unit (26) for supplying the power to the drive motor (10), and a brake (18) for stopping the movement of the... Agent: Thomas H. Osborn Otis Elevator Company

20070272493 - Passenger guiding system for a passenger transportation system: Passenger transportation system (4) including a hallway (2) providing access to at least one transport car (6, 8, 10, 12) and a control for controlling the movement of the cars, characterized by a passenger trajectory tracking device (16) including a data processing means for monitoring the access areas to the... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20070272494 - Elevator with frictional drive: The invention is an elevator comprising a movable component, a vertical track mounted along an elevator shaft, a driven frictional engagement device for frictional engagement with one side of the track with a coefficient of friction, and a connected support disposed on an opposite side of the track. The frictional... Agent: Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell LLP

20070272495 - Elevator system: In the method of the present invention, a procedure and an apparatus for the entry of calls in an elevator system are described. In the method, a destination call is entered outside the elevator car if the starting floor is a floor with intensive departing traffic. On other floors, the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070272496 - Control method and system for elevator: An operation control method of plural elevators working between many floors is constructed so that a risk floor having a high probability that a long wait occurs is selected from among floors on which a platform call is not generated when a platform call is newly generated, assuming that along... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070272497 - System for controlled operation of elevator in case of fire and method of controlled operation of elevator in case of fire: A fire emergency control operation system for an elevator includes: evacuation time calculating means for acquiring a positional relationship between the elevator and the fire sensor which performs the fire detecting operation based upon information from the fire sensor to calculate an evacuation operation time based upon the obtained positional... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070267254 - Operating residential elevator: An elevator for transporting a person between two floors of a building includes at least one carriage and a lifting system. The elevator includes a control system and door sensors detecting the opening and closing of doors covering a hoist way. The control system detects a first opening and closing... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070261923 - Elevator escape device with improved ventilation system: Provided is an escape device of an elevator having a car, the escape device comprising a ventilation system including an air inlet disposed on a roof of the car, a filter disposed in the air inlet, and a blower disposed in the air inlet. In case of fire, smoke is... Agent: Pro-techtor International Services

20070261924 - Remote control of an elevator: The invention relates to a method and a system for executing elevator control actions from a remote terminal in a remote control system. The remote control system comprises a remote terminal, one or more monitoring cameras as well as interface and data transfer means for the transmission of camera information,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070256898 - Drive systems: A hydraulically driven elevator or lift is provided with counterbalance means to at least partly counterbalance the load imposed by the load carrier or lift car. Operation of the counterbalance means, which includes a substantially constant volume of pressurised fluid, does not involve any interference with the working fluid of... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070256899 - Method for mounting a car drive machine, especially for elevators without any machine room and elevator obtained: The invention concern a method for mounting a car drive machine (9), especially for elevators having no machine room, the drive machine (9) being to be affixed to a structure in the hoistway, characterized in that it successively consists of positioning said drive machine (9) on a support (23) positioned... Agent: Lisa A. Bongiovi Otis Elevator Company

20070251765 - Device for the detection of foreign objects, and particularly fingers, between the doors and the contiguous walls of an elevator car with glass doors, and elevator equipped therewith: The invention relates to a device for the detection of foreign objects, and particularly fingers (13), between the doors and the contiguous walls of landing and car openings in an elevator with glass car (3) and landing (5) doors, characterized in that it comprises a means (17) to deliver a... Agent: Otis Elevator Company Intellectual Property Department

20070251766 - Lighting equipment of an elevator car, and method for guidance of persons in an elevator: Lighting equipment of an elevator car and a method for guidance of persons in an elevator provides a floor indication that communicates to the passenger, in a simple and clear manner, reaching of his or her destination floor, even in high buildings with numerous floors. The lighting equipment has a... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20070251767 - Assistant ceiling device for shielding escape hatch of an elevator: An assistant ceiling device designed to shield an escape hatch installed to a ceiling of an elevator cab. The assistant ceiling device comprises two elongated rail (10) and a rectangular assistant ceiling plate (20). Each guide (10) is installed at either side of the emergency escape hatch (1), and has... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.