Braking deceleration measurement of an elevator system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11198586-B2
Application number	US-201916502642-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2019
Priority date	Jul 3, 2019
Publication date	Dec 14, 2021
Grant date	Dec 14, 2021

Abstract

A method of measuring braking deceleration of an elevator based on a video of a motion of a hoisting machine taken by a mobile device, the motion of the hoisting machine including a motion of a brake and a motion of a traction sheave, the method including capturing the video, processing the video, and calculating a braking deceleration of the elevator based on the processed video.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of measuring braking deceleration of an elevator based on a video of a motion of a hoisting machine taken by a mobile device, the motion of the hoisting machine including a motion of a brake and a motion of a traction sheave, the method comprising:
capturing the video;
processing the video; and
calculating a braking deceleration of the elevator based on the processed video;

wherein processing the video includes:
determining a first input in response to a timing of brake initiation in the video;
recording the time when the first input is applied as brake initiation time;
determining a second input in response to a timing of sheave stop in the video; and
recording the time when the second input is applied as sheave stop time.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
uploading the video from the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein calculating the braking deceleration includes urging an input of elevator car speed.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein calculating the braking deceleration further includes:
calculating a braking deceleration of the elevator based on the brake initiation time, the sheave stop time and the elevator car speed.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first input is determined manually by pressing an input button at the moment of brake initiation while viewing the video.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second input is determined manually by pressing an input button at the moment of sheave stop while viewing the video.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein processing the video includes playing the video either in normal mode or in slow motion by varying play speed.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the first and second inputs are performed automatically by image recognition technology.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein determining the first input includes automatically pausing the video at the moment of brake initiation to confirm whether the detected timing of the brake initiation is correct.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein determining the first input includes repeating the determining if the detected timing of the brake initiation is incorrect.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein determining the second input includes automatically pausing the video at the moment of sheave stop to confirm whether the detected timing of the sheave stop is correct.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein determining the second input includes repeating the determining if the detected timing of the sheave stop is incorrect.

13. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
automatically recognizing at least one movable portion of the brake and at least one movable portion of the traction sheave in the video.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein automatically recognizing further includes urging to select at least one movable portion of the brake and at least one movable portion of the traction sheave for confirmation.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method is carried out on the same mobile device as the one that took the video.

16. A mobile application for measuring braking deceleration of an elevator based on a video of a motion of a hoisting machine taken by a mobile device, the motion of the hoisting machine including a motion of a brake and a motion of a traction sheave, the mobile application capable of being executed on the mobile device, the application comprising functions to:
capture the video;
process the video; and
calculate a braking deceleration of the elevator based on the processed video;
wherein the function to process the video further includes functions to:
determine a first input in response to a timing of brake initiation in the video;
record the time when the first input is applied as brake initiation time;
determine a second input in response to a timing of sheave stop in the video; and
record the time when the second input is applied as sheave stop time.

17. The application of claim 16 , wherein the application further includes function to upload the video from the mobile device.

18. The application of claim 16 , wherein the function to calculate the braking deceleration includes urging an input of elevator car speed.

Assignees

• Otis Elevator Co

Inventors

• Murata Jiro
• Takeuchi Takashi

Classifications

• G06V20/40

  in video content (extracting overlay text G06V20/62; video retrieval G06F16/70; processing of video elementary streams in video servers H04N21/234; processing of video elementary streams in video clients H04N21/44) · CPC title

• B66B3/002

  Indicators · CPC title

• G06T2207/10016

  Video; Image sequence · CPC title

• B66D5/00

  Braking or detent devices characterised by application to lifting or hoisting gear, e.g. for controlling the lowering of loads (for pulley blocks B66D3/10) · CPC title

• B66B5/0031 Primary

  for safety reasons · CPC title