Safety device for elevator

• US 5,083,634 A
• Filed: 05/01/1991
• Issued: 01/28/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Yonemoto, Masashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pellinen, A. D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): COLBERT, LAWRENCE
• Application Number:
  US07/694,396
• Time in Patent Office: 272 Days
• Field of Search: 187/109, 187/89, 187/130, 363/39, 363/40
• US Class Current: 187/277
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 5/02 responsive to abnormal operating conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/48 by measuring frequency of generated current or voltage in general G01R23/00

Abstract

A safety device for an elevator which detects a trouble of the control device quickly to apply an emergency brake, thereby to ensure the safety of the people in the cage. The elevator safety device is so designed that the harmonic wave component produced by an inverter is detected with the aid of a band-pass filter, and when the harmonic wave component thus detected becomes abnormal, an emergency stop instruction is produced.

Claims

1. A safety device for use in an elevator in which an inverter controls the operation of an electric motor for winding up a cage thereof, said safety device comprising:

harmonic wave component detecting means for detecting a harmonic wave produced by said inverter; and

means for producing an emergency stop instruction when said harmonic wave component detected by said harmonic wave component detecting means exceeds a predetermined reference voltage.

2. The safety device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said emergency stop instruction producing means includes a comparator for comparing an output of said harmonic wave component detecting means with said predetermined reference voltage, and AND logic gate for producing said emergency stop instruction from output of said comparator and a cage landing detection signal which indicates said cage of the elevator is at an aimed floor.

3. The safety device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said harmonic wave component detecting means includes a band pass filter for transmitting only a predetermined frequency component of outputs of said inverter.

4. The safety device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said harmonic wave component detecting means includes a band pass filter for transmitting only a predetermined frequency component of outputs of said inverter.