Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle inventions 03/08

20080073155 - Loader: A loader includes a hydraulically operated extension arm, a load sensor for monitoring the load condition on the loader and a hydraulic arrangement for actuation of the extension arm and/or an implement attached to the extension arm. The hydraulic arrangement exhibits at least one hydraulic cylinder with one supply line... Agent: Deere & Company

20080073156 - Belt for an elevator installation, production method for such a belt and elevator installation with such a belt: A belt (12) for a lift installation comprises a first part belt (13) of a first material, a tensile carrier arrangement with at least one tensile carrier (14), which is arranged in the first part belt, and a second part belt (15) of a second material. The first material comprises... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080073157 - Auxiliary power supply apparatus and method: An auxiliary power supply apparatus and method thereof including a backup battery system having a power supply and a control board to provide an auxiliary power to an elevator control system upon failure of a primary power so that an elevator car may run to a next available upward or... Agent: Brian R. Mcginley Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080073158 - Method for creating temporary safety space within an elevator hoistway: A method for creating a temporary safety space within an elevator hoistway by preventing upward or downward movement of a car or counterweight along guide rails. The method includes the steps of providing engagement members on the guide rails and extending support struts from the car or counterweight to either... Agent: Klaus P.stoffel, Esq. Wolff & Samson PC

20080073159 - Circuit for controlling an elevator: An elevator control system for controlling the movement of an elevator car up and down an elevator shaft between floors of a structure includes a call input device provided on each floor to indicate a passenger is waiting to be picked-up; a measuring device to indicate a load on the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080067005 - Variable straddle transporter lift with programmable height positions: A transport lift has a base and two spaced-apart legs are slidingly mounted on the base for movement toward and away from and toward each other. Wheels support the base and legs for rolling movement. Leg motor drive means operate to drive the two spaced-apart legs toward and away from... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080067006 - Elevator system: In an elevator system, an evacuation elevator control portion devises an evacuation plan making use of elevators based on disaster information in the event of a disaster, and outputs a command to perform evacuation operation, which is based on the evacuation plan, to an elevator operation control portion. The evacuation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080067007 - Belt for an elevator system and method of manufacturing such a belt: A method of manufacturing a belt for an elevator system includes the steps of: manufacturing a first belt part that has an arrangement of grooves, in particular in the lengthwise direction of the belt; arrangement of a tension bearer in at least one of the grooves; and connection of a... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080067009 - Elevator belt for an elevator installation and method of producing such an elevator belt: An elevator belt for an elevator installation includes a wedge rib arrangement with at least two wedge ribs which extend in a longitudinal direction of the elevator belt and form a contact side for engagement with a drive wheel of the elevator installation, a tensile carrier arrangement with at least... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080067010 - Elevator belt for an elevator installation and method of producing such an elevator belt: A lift belt (12) for a lift installation comprises a belt body (15) in which a tensile carrier arrangement (14) with several tensile carriers (14.1, 14.2) for transmission of a tension force in longitudinal direction of the lift belt is arranged. A profile body (16) which spaces these tensile carriers... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080067008 - Elevator installation with an elevator support means, elevator support means for such an elevator installation and production method for such elevator support means: A lift installation according to the invention comprises a drive unit (2) which by way of a drive wheel (4.1) drives at least one lift support means (12) supporting a lift cage (3), wherein the lift support means has on a traction side facing the drive wheel (4.1) a rib... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080067011 - Method of checking elevator braking equipment, a method for placing an elevator in operation and equipment for carrying out placing in operation: In this lift installation, lift braking equipment (11) brakes and holds a lift cage (2). The lift braking equipment (13) consists of a number of brake units (12) which when required are brought into engagement with brake tracks (6), wherein the brake unit (12) for this purpose presses at least... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080067012 - Brake assembly for in-vehicle platform lift: A brake assembly for an in-vehicle platform lift including at least one column and at least one flexible drive member. The brake assembly has at least one lever including a brake face that engages the column to brake the platform lift when the flexible drive member goes slack. The brake... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080067013 - Method for controlling a transportation system: A method and a system for responding to a service request sent to a transportation service, determining one or more alternatives as a transportation device for the user and selecting a personal transportation device. An automated transportation system according to the invention comprises: an elevator group comprising a plurality of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080067014 - Method of operating an elevator installation, an elevator installation operable by this method and safety equipment for this elevator installation: An elevator installation with at least one upper elevator car and at least one lower elevator car includes a first electromechanical switching mechanism mounted on the upper car and having a weight fastened at a downwardly extending elongate run, the run being held in a travel setting by the weight... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080060880 - Load suspension means for a lifting apparatus: The invention relates to a load suspension means for a lifting apparatus (11), which can be fitted on a lifting column (16) of the lifting apparatus (11) and has a transverse support (24) and at least one load suspension element (26) which is arranged thereon and is provided in a... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080060881 - Elevator installation: The invention relates to an elevator installation with a number of cars in a shaft, a second car being disposed underneath a first car and there being associated with each car a drive with a traction sheave and also at least one cable strand, which is led over the traction... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080060882 - Elevator installation: The invention relates to an elevator installation comprising at least one car, which has a safety gear and with which a control unit, a drive and a brake are associated, and further comprising a safety device for avoiding a collision of the car with an obstacle, another car or an... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080060883 - Elevator system: The invention concerns a method and a system for monitoring the operation of the safety circuit of an elevator, said safety circuit containing safety switches connected in series with a contactor and a static circuit. In the method, the current flowing in the safety circuit is measured and the state... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080060884 - Elevator installation: The invention relates to an elevator installation with at least one car, which can be made to travel in a shaft and is connected to a counterweight by means of two cable strands, which are associated with different sides of the car, and with a traction sheave, which can be... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20080053754 - Automated warehouse and method for controlling stacker crane in automated warehouse: Support columns are mounted at both front and rear ends of a stacker crane 4 to form a mast having a gate shape. An elevation frame having the size which is twice as large as a front space of a rack is provided at the mast, and a base of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080053755 - Guide device for an elevator, elevator with such a guide device, and method for operating such an elevator: A guide device for an elevator car has a guide shoe that is displaceable by a linear guide that is arranged on the elevator car. Should the elevator car in an extreme situation travel beyond the uppermost floor, the guide shoe is arrested by a projecting console, and the elevator... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080053756 - Elevator installation with car and counterweight and method for arrangement of an elevator installation: An elevator installation includes a car and with a counterweight in an elevator shaft, the car and the counterweight being guided by two guide rails. The elevator shaft is bounded by shaft walls and shaft doors, which define a cross-section of the elevator installation. The invention the cross-section of the... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC

20080053757 - Safety equipment for an elevator installation as well as an elevator installation with such safety equipment: Safety equipment for an elevator installation with an upper elevator car and a lower elevator car, which cars are both movable substantially independently along a vertical direction in a common elevator shaft of the elevator installation includes a first electro-optical detection system with a first light source in a lower... Agent: Fraser Clemens Martin & Miller LLC