Safety apparatus for elevator system

• US 4,256,204 A
• Filed: 08/31/1978
• Issued: 03/17/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Sakai, Yoshio, Inaba, Hiromi, Kurosawa, Toshiaki, Ando, Takeki, Shima, Seiya, Kuroha, Hiroaki, Miyao, Hideo, Issiki, Katuhito
• Primary Examiner(s): Truhe, J. V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Duncanson, Jr., W. E.
• Application Number:
  US05/938,347
• Time in Patent Office: 929 Days
• Field of Search: 187/29
• US Class Current: 187/288
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 5/02 responsive to abnormal operating conditions

Abstract

A safety apparatus for an elevator system is disclosed in which upon detection an instantaneous power service interruption, an emergency brake is applied to the car and continues to be applied for longer than the time required for the particular car to stop.

Claims

1. A safety apparatus for an elevator system, comprising:

a power supply;

a motor supplied with power by said power supply;

a sheave driven by said motor;

an elevator car operated by the rotation of said sheave;

an electromagnetic brake capable of holding the elevator motion system of said motor, said sheave and said car in a stop condition;

an elevator control device to which power is supplied from said power supply;

voltage drop responsive means being operated in response to the voltage drop of said power supply to a predetermined voltage which is higher than the deenergization voltage of any of the relays included in said elevator control device and lower than the normal voltage of said power supply, said voltage drop responsive means being restored to a nonoperation state in response to the recovery of said power supply to the normal voltage thereof;

emergency brake means for applying an emergency brake to said elevator motion system; and

holding means responsive to the operation of said voltage drop responsive means for maintaining said emergency brake means in an operated condition until said elevator motion system comes to a stop.

2. A safety apparatus for the elevator system according to claim 1, in which said holding means includes means for detecting the elevator car speed, and means for deenergizing said emergency brake means in response to the reduction in the output of said speed detector means.

3. A safety apparatus for the elevator system according to claim 1, in which said voltage drop responsive means includes means for detecting the interruption of service of said power supply.

4. A safety apparatus for the elevator system according to claim 1, in which said voltage drop responsive means includes means for detecting that the door of the car running is not completely closed.

5. A safety apparatus for the elevator system according to claim 1, in which said holding means includes a timer set in response to the operation of said voltage drop responsive means at a time lapse longer than the time required for the elevator motion system to stop by the energization of said emergency brake means after the energization of said emergency brake means.

6. A safety apparatus for the elevator system according to claim 1, in which said holding means includes memory means responsive to the operation of said voltage drop responsive means, means for clearing the storage of said memory means after stoppage of said elevator motion system, and means for actuating said emergency brake means in response to the output of said memory means.

7. A safety apparatus for the elevator system according to claim 1, in which said voltage drop responsive means includes a relay connected to said power supply through an impedance element which is connected in series with said relay with respect to said power supply.