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Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/10

20100018809 - Elevator arrangement, method and safety structure: An elevator arrangement, comprising at least one elevator shaft, a working platform, elevator car or equivalent arranged to move in the elevator shaft, a power source for moving the said working platform or equivalent e.g. by means of ropes, chains, belts or equivalent, characterized in that the vertical range of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100018810 - Elevator apparatus: In an elevator apparatus, a car and a counterweight are raised/lowered by hoisting machines. Each of those hoisting machines includes a drive sheave and a hoisting machine body, the hoisting machine body including an electric motor for rotating the drive sheave and a hoisting machine brake for braking rotation of... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20100018811 - Elevators: An elevator car assembly (10) comprises at least one runner (40) for engaging a wall (34) of a hoistway (30) such that the car assembly (10) may move within the hoistway (30) with the runner (40) in contact with the hoistway wall (30). The runner is preferably a wheel (40).... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20100012436 - Hydraulic elevator system: The hydraulic elevator system has several configurations, each incorporating the hydraulic motor and pump at the lower end of the hydraulic ram and cylinder assembly. A first embodiment utilizes a wet pump and motor assembly at the lower end of the cylinder, with the volume between the cylinder and casing... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20100012437 - Aerodynamic controls for high speed elevators: An elevator car is provided with at least one moveable aerodynamic control surface which is moveable to generate counter forces to aerodynamic forces resulting from airflow around the elevator car. Aerodynamically suitable surfaces may also be provided on either end of the elevator car.... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20100006377 - Pallet counter for lift truck: A method for counting the pallets or loads moved by a lift truck using internal sensors is disclosed. The lift truck includes a weight sensor for weighing a load, a height sensor, for measuring a height of the forks, and a distance sensor for determining whether the vehicle has moved.... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100006378 - Elevator drive system including rescue operation circuit: A system continuously drives an elevator hoist motor during normal and power failure conditions. A regenerative drive delivers power from a main power supply to the hoist motor during normal operation. A rescue operation circuit includes a backup power supply and is operable in the event of a failure of... Agent: Kinney And Lange Pa

20100006379 - Elevator system: In an elevator system, an operation of a car is controlled by an operation control section. When a specific user in the car is certified by personal authentication of a personal authentication section after a landing call registration operation is performed by a user through a landing call operation section... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100000823 - Assembly for roping an elevator: An assembly for controlling a vertically extending member includes a device (22) having a stop member (34) and a speed control member (36) for controlling movement of the vertically extending member such as an elevator load bearing member (32) during a roping procedure. In a disclosed example, the stop member... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20100000824 - Elevator machine brake with integrated bearing and brake surface: An elevator machine (10) includes a machine shaft (14, 14′) and a sheave (26) that rotates with the machine shaft (14, 14′). A motor (12) selectively rotates the machine shaft (14, 14′). A brake (30) having at least one brake armature (36) selectively moves a brake rotor (28) coupled for... Agent: Carlson Gaskey & Olds

20100000825 - Elevator system to maintain functionality 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