Emergency apparatus for elevator

• US 4,376,471 A
• Filed: 01/21/1981
• Issued: 03/15/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/1980
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Nomura, Masami, Uchino, Hideo, Kanbe, Masumi, Aoi, Takaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Witkowski, S. J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Duncanson, Jr., W. E.
• Application Number:
  US06/226,906
• Time in Patent Office: 783 Days
• Field of Search: 187/29, 307/64-68, 307/72, 307/73, 307/75, 307/151, 307/155, 318/53-55, 318/59, 318/62, 363/109, 363/124, 363/137
• US Class Current: 187/290
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 13/143 electrical
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/062 for AC powered loads
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53875 with analogue control of three-phase output

Abstract

An emergency apparatus for elevator which converts a DC power into an AC power by an inverter device in an emergency state to feed the AC power to an AC traction motor and an AC motor for door-opening and closing which have different rated voltages so as to drive a cage of the elevator and to open and close a door of the cage comprises selectively feeding a power through said inverter device to either of said traction motor or said motor for door-opening and closing, in an emergency state.

Claims

1. In an emergency apparatus for operating an elevator which converts a DC power into an AC power by an inverter device in an emergency state to feed the AC power to an AC traction motor and AC motor for door-opening and closing with each of said motors having different rated voltages so as to drive a cage of the elevator and to open and close a door of the cage, an improvement which comprises:

means for selectively feeding a power through said inverter device to either of said traction motor or said motor for door-opening and closing, in an emergency state; and

an oscillation circuit for varying the frequency of the output of said inverter device in the feeding of the AC power.

2. The emergency apparatus for elevator according to claim 1 wherein said oscillation circuit comprises a first oscillation circuit which oscillates in a first frequency;

a second oscillation circuit which oscillates in a second frequency; and

a logical circuit which inputs the outputs of said first and second oscillation circuits and a driving command signal which commands the driving of either of said traction motor or said motor for door-opening and closing.

3. The emergency apparatus for elevator according to claim 2 wherein said inverter device has a structure for outputting a three phase AC power.

4. The emergency apparatus for elevator according to claim 3 wherein said inverter device is turned on through a turn-on circuit so as to give both directions of phase rotation of the three phase AC output.

5. The emergency apparatus for elevator according to claim 4 wherein said turn-on circuit inputs the phase rotation command signal and the clock signal of said oscillation circuit and said turn-on circuit comprises a counter having figures corresponding to number of arms of said inverter device and a logical circuit connected to said counter in the output side.