The invention relates to an elevator comprising at least one elevator car (12) driving along an elevator shaft (14) as well as an elevator control (42) measuring the car position. The elevator further comprises a buffer (20) in the 10 shaft pit, whose length is adjustable in response to the car position and car speed. Via this measure the shaft pit can be reduced in high speed elevator requiring large buffer lengths.
Elevator with adjustable buffer length
2015-07-22
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B66B Aufzüge , ELEVATORS |