CONVEYOR SYSTEM, AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM, AND A CONVEYOR DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20240064041A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-22

    申请号:US18386482

    申请日:2023-11-02

    CPC classification number: H04L12/4641 B66B1/3453 B66B25/003

    Abstract: A conveyor system includes a conveyor control unit, one or more conveyor components, and a communication system for providing data frame-based communication between the conveyor control unit, the one or more conveyor components, and/or one or more external or remote systems. The communication system includes: at least two virtual local area networks (VLANs) separated by respective tags, a first switch device configured to connect the one or more conveyor components to at least one of the at least two VLANs, a second switch device configured to connect the conveyor control unit and the one or more external or remote systems to at least one of the at least two VLANs, and a trunk link configured to carry the data frames belonging to the at least two VLANs between the first switch device and the second switch device. An elevator system and a conveyor device are also discloses.

    MAINTENANCE OF A CONVEYOR SYSTEM
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240076162A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-07

    申请号:US18385735

    申请日:2023-10-31

    CPC classification number: B66B5/0093 B66B25/003

    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (210, 120) for managing a maintenance of a conveyor system (110), the apparatus (210, 120) configured to: receive (410) data indicative of an access right to perform the maintenance; generate (430), in response to a detection (420) of an access right to perform the maintenance, a first control signal to disable communicatively reaching the sub-system (225); generate (450), in response to a receipt (440) of an acknowledgement signal indicative of a predefined state of the maintenance, a second control signal to enable the interface (215, 260) to communicatively reach the sub-system (225). The invention also relates to a method, a computer program, and a conveyor system.

    SOLUTION FOR GENERATING AT LEAST ONE INSTALLATION OPERATION FOR AT LEAST ONE ONGOING INSTALLATION PROCESS AT AN INSTALLATION SITE

    公开(公告)号:US20230004910A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:US17941722

    申请日:2022-09-09

    Abstract: A method for generating at least one installation operation for at least one on-going installation process of at an installation site includes obtaining site information of the at least one ongoing installation process at the installation site from a site control unit arranged at the installation site, obtaining site information gathered from one or more previous installation processes at one or more other installation sites from one or more external databases, defining at least one installation operation for the at least one ongoing installation process based on the site information of the at least one ongoing installation process and the site information gathered from the one or more previous installation processes, and generating at least one signal including an instruction to perform the at least one installation operation for the at least one ongoing installation process to the site control unit. A computing unit, an installation support system, and a computer program performing at least partly the method are disclosed.

    DEVICE MANAGEMENT FOR HYBRID ELEVATOR ENVIRONMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20210221642A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-22

    申请号:US17205572

    申请日:2021-03-18

    Abstract: To have an integrated device management for a hybrid elevator environment, at least one converter for converting device management messages according to a second protocol used by one or more peripheral devices to be according to a first protocol, which is used by the device management of the elevator environment, is added to the elevator environment. Further, the device management is configured to update, in response to receiving a device management message containing, as device information, at least an identifier of a peripheral device, network information to contain the device information in the device management message.

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