Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle inventions

20090294218 - Bomb disposal robot having a forklift capability and method: A forklift assembly is mounted to a robotic bomb disposal vehicle. The forklift assembly includes at least one fork, and may be coupled via a receiver hitch to the vehicle. In one embodiment, the receiver hitch is positioned between articulating arms located on the vehicle, permitting vertical movement of the... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20090294219 - Wind tower service lift: An apparatus used for maintaining a wind tower structure wherein the wind tower structure may have a plurality of legs and may be configured to support a wind turbine above the ground in a better position to interface with winds. The lift structure may be configured for carrying objects and... Agent: Grant R Clayton Clayton Howarth & Cannon, PC

20090294220 - Elevator car brake with shoes actuated by springs coupled to gear drive assembly: An elevator car braking apparatus includes a gear drive assembly for compressing one or more springs which are coupled by a cam follower to one or a pair of brake shoes. When the springs are released from a compressed state, the brake shoes engage and grip hoisting ropes, part of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090294221 - Programmable adaptable touch screen elevator devices: Elevator call devices (41, 41a, 66, 75) have a programmable touch screen (42, 66, 74) which can be programmed to display (a) ten-key destination call buttons (46), (b) up hall call and down hall call buttons (58), or (c) N-key destination buttons (65), as well as buttons (50-53, 60, 63)... Agent: Thomas H. Osborn Otis Elevator Company

20090294222 - Roller guide with speed dependent stiffness: A guide device (26) for use in an elevator system includes an elevator guide roller (30) having a hardness that varies depending on a speed of rotation of the guide roller (30). In a disclosed example, a magnetorheological fluid within the guide roller (30) changes viscosity depending on the speed... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20090288918 - Column lifting platform for motor vehicles: The invention relates to a lifting platform, in particular a column lifting platform, for motor vehicles, having at least one column which is fixedly anchored on the ground, having a lifting carriage which is guided in a vertically movable fashion on the respective column, having at least one longitudinally adjustable... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090288919 - Commissioning of elevator hallway fixtures in a destination entry group elevator system: A destination entry input device (30, 35) is commissioned in a group elevator system (10). The destination entry input device (30, 35) is connected to a dispatch controller (20). A network address is input into the destination entry input device (30, 35) corresponding to an installation location of the destination... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090288920 - Unintended movement governor: The invention relates to an electronic unintended movement governor, which comprises an input for car position data, means for determining the speed of the elevator car, a plurality of limit values for permitted movement of the elevator car, such as the limit value of the maximum permitted speed of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090283366 - Lifting assembly: A lifting assembly may include a base frame; a support assembly coupled to the base frame wherein the support assembly may include a rotating member pivotally coupled to the base frame; a support arm coupled to the rotating member; and a lifting arm coupled to the support arm; and a... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20090283367 - Elevator apparatus: In an elevator apparatus, a single car is raised and lowered by a plurality of hoisting machines. An elevator control device for controlling the hoisting machines generates speed commands separately for the hoisting machines. When a current value of one of the hoisting machines reaches a current set value, which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090283368 - Elevator group supervisory control system: An elevator group control system includes a reference route generating portion, which for each elevator, generates a reference route which the elevator should follow with respect to the time axis and position axis; and an assignment portion which selects an elevator for assignment to a generated hall call so as... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090283369 - Communication of service disruption information in a group elevator system: Elevator service disruption information is communicated to passengers in a group elevator system (10). The group elevator system (10) includes a group of elevators (14a, 14b, 14c) operable to transport each of the passengers to one of a plurality of floors (L, F2, F3, F4, F5). A destination entry input... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090277723 - Running rail for a lifting platform: The invention relates to a running rail for a lifting platform, having at least one module carrier 1 which is connected to at least one lifting unit 2 in order to apply a force which at least assists the lifting process, and at least one module insert 3 which is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090277724 - Elevator system: The invention relates to an elevator system having an elevator shaft and at least one elevator cabin movable inside the elevator shaft. The elevator system further comprises a decentralized control system having a first analysis unit associated with one of the at least one elevator cabin, a second analysis unit... Agent: Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP

20090277725 - Elevator arrangement: A toe guard (1) for an elevator car (2), said toe guard comprising a movable panel (3). The panel (3) comprises a first panel part (10) which, being guided and supported by guide tracks (5), is movable substantially between a drawn-out position on a landing floor and a stowed-away position... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch