A method of detecting a location of a conveyance apparatus within a conveyance system including: detecting a sync sensor along a path of a conveyance apparatus at a first point in time, the sync sensor being at a known location along the path of the conveyance apparatus; monitoring a first acceleration of the conveyance apparatus along a first axis from the first point in time to a second point in time; determining a first distance away from the sync sensor along the path of the conveyance apparatus in response to the first acceleration of the conveyance apparatus and a period of time between the first point in time and the second point in time; and determining a first location of the conveyance apparatus along the path of the conveyance apparatus in response to the known location of the sync sensor and the first distance away from the sync sensor.
Elevator location determination based on car vibrations or accelerations
2024-04-23
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | B66B Aufzüge , ELEVATORS |
ELEVATOR LOCATION DETERMINATION BASED ON CAR VIBRATIONS OR ACCELERATIONS
Europäisches Patentamt | 2020
|ELEVATOR LOCATION DETERMINATION BASED ON CAR VIBRATIONS OR ACCELERATIONS
Europäisches Patentamt | 2020
|Elevator location determination based on car vibrations or accelerations
Europäisches Patentamt | 2020
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