Elevator control system with elevator hoistway operation monitoring system and method
First Claim
1. In an elevator control system for automatically controlling the operation of an elevator car having a car door in which said elevator car moves between different ones of a plurality of floor levels through an elevator shaft and in which said floor levels each have a hoistway door providing access to the elevator car in the shaft the improvement being an elevator hoistway operation monitoring system comprising:
- means for sensing an opening of at least one of the hoistway doors at one of a plurality of floor levels and sensing a location of the elevator car at one of a plurality of floor levels;
means for automatically preventing the elevator car from moving if the at least one hoistway door is opened at a floor level other than the floor level at which the elevator car is located; and
means for prohibiting the elevator car from moving upon a subsequent closing of the at least one hoistway door at the floor level other than the floor level at which the elevator car is located an which the prohibiting means is directly actuated with positioning the at least one hoistway door in an opened position at a floor level other than the floor level at which the elevator car is located.
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Abstract
An elevator control system (40) for automatically controlling the operation of an elevator car (22A) having a car door (24A) in which the elevator moves between different floor levels of an elevator shaft (30A) in which each floor level has associated hoistway doors (26A, 26C) for providing access to the elevator car (22A) in the shaft (30A) and an elevator hoistway operation monitoring system (34) with individual floor monitoring switches (32) for determining the floor level location of the elevator car (22A), individual hoistway door monitoring sensors (38) for sensing the opening of a hoistway door (26A) relays (56, 58, 52) and contact (50) coupled with an elevator safety circuit (42) for automatically preventing the elevator car (22A) from moving if a hoistway door (26A) is opened at a floor level other than the floor level at which the elevator car (22A) is located and for prohibiting the car (22A) from moving in response to the closing of the opened hoistway door (26A).
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21 Claims
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1. In an elevator control system for automatically controlling the operation of an elevator car having a car door in which said elevator car moves between different ones of a plurality of floor levels through an elevator shaft and in which said floor levels each have a hoistway door providing access to the elevator car in the shaft the improvement being an elevator hoistway operation monitoring system comprising:
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means for sensing an opening of at least one of the hoistway doors at one of a plurality of floor levels and sensing a location of the elevator car at one of a plurality of floor levels; means for automatically preventing the elevator car from moving if the at least one hoistway door is opened at a floor level other than the floor level at which the elevator car is located; and means for prohibiting the elevator car from moving upon a subsequent closing of the at least one hoistway door at the floor level other than the floor level at which the elevator car is located an which the prohibiting means is directly actuated with positioning the at least one hoistway door in an opened position at a floor level other than the floor level at which the elevator car is located. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. In an elevator control system for automatically controlling the operation of an elevator car having a car door in which said elevator car moves between different ones of a plurality of floor levels in which an associated hoistway door is located on each of said plurality of floor levels to provide access to the elevator car at each floor and in which at least one other elevator car is located in an elevator bank with said elevator and in which the at least one other elevator car is spaced laterally from the elevator car in the elevator bank and in which said at least one other elevator car in the bank moves between different ones of another plurality of floor levels in which an associated another elevator hoistway door is located on each of said other plurality of floor levels to provide access to the at least one other elevator car, the improvement being an elevator hoistway operation monitoring system comprising:
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means for determining the floor level of the elevator car in the bank; means for sensing an opening of at least one hoistway door associated with the elevator car at a floor level other than the floor level at which the elevator car is located; and means responsive to said sensing means for automatically preventing said at least one other elevator car in the bank from moving if said at least one hoistway door associated with the elevator car is opened at a floor level other than the floor level at which the elevator car is located. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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