Elevator car

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10836609-B2
Application number	US-201515555742-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2015
Priority date	Mar 5, 2015
Publication date	Nov 17, 2020
Grant date	Nov 17, 2020

Abstract

An elevator car (2) comprising a passenger compartment defining an interior space (4) surrounded by sidewalls (62, 63, 64) and at least one car door; and at least one lighting arrangement (11) configured to illuminate the interior space (4). Said lighting arrangement (11) is associated with a ventilation system (18) configured to ventilate the interior space (4) even in a situation where the car door is closed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An elevator car comprising:
a passenger compartment defining an interior space surrounded by vertical sidewalls and at least one car door; and
at least one lighting arrangement configured for illuminating the interior space, said lighting arrangement co-located with a ventilation system which is configured for ventilating the interior space even in a situation where the car door is closed;
wherein the at least one lighting arrangement comprises a vertically-extending decorative element being one of (i) mounted to a first sidewall of the sidewalls of the elevator car and (ii) formed by the first sidewall of the sidewalls of the elevator car;
wherein the lighting arrangement comprises a gap between the decorative element and a second sidewall of the sidewalls adjacent to the first sidewall of the car, the second sidewall orthogonal to the first sidewall, the gap accommodating the lighting element such as to provide indirect illumination of the interior space.

2. The elevator car of claim 1 , wherein the sidewalls form at least one vertically extending corner and the at least one lighting arrangement is assigned to the at least one vertically extending corner in a position in which it provides indirect illumination of the interior space along the vertically extending corner.

3. The elevator car according to claim 1 , wherein the lighting arrangement includes at least one lighting element extending in vertical direction.

4. The elevator car according claim 3 , wherein the lighting element comprises at least one LED, in particular a plurality of LEDs arranged next to each other in the vertical direction.

5. The elevator car according to claim 4 , wherein the lighting element comprises at least one LED strip attached to a vertically extending mounting structure.

6. The elevator car according to claim 1 , wherein the ventilation system includes a ventilation channel extending between the lighting arrangement and an associated sidewall of the passenger compartment.

7. The elevator car according to claim 6 , wherein the ventilation system comprises a ventilation opening in the ventilation channel, particularly at the top and/or at the bottom of said ventilation channel.

8. The elevator car according to claim 1 , wherein the elevator car comprises at least one structural side panel which is formed such as to provide a mounting portion for supporting the at least one lighting arrangement.

9. The elevator car according to claim 8 , wherein at least a portion of the decorative element is attached to the mounting portion and the at least one lighting element is fixed to the decorative element and/or to the at least one structural side panel.

10. The elevator car according to claim 8 , wherein the structural side panel is formed with a recess in a region assigned to the vertically extending corner, said recess forming the mounting portion for the lighting element and/or the decorative element.

11. The elevator car according to claim 8 , wherein the decorative element has an inner wall facing the interior space and at least a portion of said inner wall is oriented parallel to the structural side panel.

12. The elevator car according to claim 8 , wherein the decorative element has an inner wall facing the interior space and wherein at least a portion of said inner wall is arranged at an angle between 0 and 90 degrees with respect to the structural side panel, in particular at an angle of about 45 degrees.

13. The elevator car according to claim 8 , wherein the decorative element comprises at least one decorative panel attached to the sidewall of the structural side panel facing the interior space.

14. The elevator car according to claim 13 , wherein the decorative panel is attached to the sidewall of the structural panel by means of at least one hook and loop fastener.

15. The elevator car according to claim 1 , wherein at least one edge of the decorative element comprises a protrusion facing an adjacent decorative element and providing a gap between adjacent decorative elements.

16. The elevator car according to claim 1 , wherein the decorative element has an inner wall facing the interior space and wherein at least a portion of said inner wall is arcuate.

17. The elevator car according to claim 1 , wherein the decorative element comprises a metal sheet, in particular at least a portion of the metal sheet being folded such as to form at least a portion of the decorative element by a double layer of the metal sheet.

18. The elevator car according to claim 1 , further comprising a control panel attached to one of the sidewalls of the elevator car.

19. An elevator car comprising:
a passenger compartment defining an interior space surrounded by vertical sidewalls and at least one car door; and
at least one lighting arrangement configured for illuminating the interior space, said lighting arrangement co-located with a ventilation system which is configured for ventilating the interior space even in a situation where the car door is closed;
wherein the at least one lighting arrangement comprises a vertically-extending decorative element being one of (i) mounted to a first sidewall of the sidewalls of the elevator car and (ii) formed by the first sidewall of the sidewalls of the elevator car;
wherein the lighting arrangement comprises a gap between the decorative element and a second sidewall of the sidewalls adjacent to the first sidewall of the car, the second sidewall orthogonal to the first sidewall, the gap accommodating the lighting element such as to provide indirect illumination of the interior space;
the ventilation system comprising a vertically extending ventilation channel located in the gap formed between the decorative element and the second sidewall.

Assignees

• Otis Elevator Co
• Fernandez Juan Jose

Inventors

• Fernandez Juan Jose
• Hernandez-Martin Cristina

Classifications

• B66B11/024

  Ventilation systems · CPC title

• B66B11/0233 Primary

  Lighting systems · CPC title