STANDBY MODE OF AN ELEVATOR

• US 20100258383A1
• Filed: 05/28/2010
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Inventors: Jokinen, Risto, Helvila, Jari, SAARIKOSKI, Tapio
• Granted Patent: US 7,942,246 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 187/290
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/34 Details , e.g. call counting devices, data transmission from car to control system, devices giving information to the control system

Abstract

The invention relates to an elevator system (1), which comprises control appliances (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) of the elevator system fitted to communicate between themselves. The elevator system comprises a control arrangement (11) for placing at least one control appliance into standby mode or for terminating the standby mode. The control arrangement is fitted to set the standby mode on the basis of at least one activation signal, as well as to send a control signal (21) of the standby mode to at least one control appliance of the elevator system. The invention also relates to a method for fitting a standby mode into an elevator system.

Claims

1. Elevator system, which comprises control appliances of the elevator system fitted to communicate between themselves, and which elevator system comprises a control arrangement for placing at least one control appliance of the elevator system into a standby mode or for terminating a standby mode, wherein the aforementioned control arrangement is fitted to set the standby mode on the basis of at least one activation signal,

and in that the control arrangement is fitted to send a control signal of the standby mode to at least one control appliance of the elevator system,

which control appliance of the elevator system comprises a first and a second power supply circuit,

to which second power supply circuit a controllable switch is connected such that power supply from the output of the second power supply circuit can be either allowed or prevented with the control of the switch,

and to which first power supply circuit a controller is connected, which controller comprises an input for the control signal of the standby mode,

and in that the aforementioned controller is fitted to control the aforementioned switch on the basis of the control signal of the standby mode.

2. Elevator system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the following functions as the activation signal:

the landing call signal

the status signal of the control appliance of the safety arrangement of the elevator

the movement signal of the elevator car

the status signal of the power supply of the elevator

the signal of the sensor of the stopping floor of the elevator

3. Elevator system according to any of the preceding claims, wherein at least one control appliance of the elevator system is fitted to switch to standby mode after the elevator car has stopped at the stopping floor of the elevator.

4. Elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the power supply of the sensor that measures the movement of the elevator car is in the output of the second brake power supply circuit, and in that the aforementioned controllable switch is periodically controlled to the mode of permitted power supply in the standby mode of the control appliance of the elevator for reading the sensor that measures the movement of the elevator car one preset interval at a time.

5. Elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the power supply to the brake of the elevator is fitted to occur with the control of the brake control appliance of the elevator via the power supply circuit of the safety devices of the elevator, the aforementioned controllable switch is fitted to the power supply circuit of the brake of the elevator such that power supply to the opener of the brake can be either allowed or prevented with the control of the switch, and in that the aforementioned switch is periodically controlled to the state of permitted power supply in the standby mode of the brake control appliance of the elevator for testing the brake of the elevator one preset interval at a time.

6. Elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the lighting of the elevator is controlled on the basis of a control signal of the standby mode received by the control appliance of the lighting of the elevator.

7. Elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the control appliance of the safety arrangement of the elevator is fitted to periodically supply power in its standby mode to at least one sensor that measures the safety of the elevator for reading the aforementioned sensor one preset interval at a time.

8. Method for fitting a standby mode in an elevator system, in which method control appliances that communicate between themselves are fitted to the elevator system, and at least one aforementioned control appliance of the elevator system is controlled into standby mode or the standby mode of at least one control appliance of the elevator system is terminated, wherein:

the standby mode of the elevator is determined on the basis of at least one activation signal, and

a control signal of the standby mode is sent to at least one control appliance of the elevator system

a first and a second power supply circuit are fitted to the control appliance of the elevator system

a controllable switch is connected to the second power supply circuit such that power supply from the output of the second power supply circuit can be either allowed or prevented with the control of the switch

a controller is fitted to the first power supply circuit, and also an input for the control signal of the standby mode is fitted in connection with the controller

the control signal of the standby mode is read, and the switch is controlled with the controller on the basis of the control signal

9. Method according to claim 8, wherein:

a sensor that measures the movement of the elevator car is fitted to the output of the second power supply circuit

the control signal of the standby mode is read and the controller is switched to standby mode according to the control signal read,

in the standby mode the switch is periodically controlled to the mode permitting power supply for at least one preset interval at a time, and

the sensor that measures the movement of the elevator car is read during the permitted power supply mode of the switch