Measuring device for measuring an elevator shaft and use of the measuring device to measure an elevator shaft

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11807495-B2
Application number	US-202017310192-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 2, 2020
Priority date	Mar 5, 2019
Publication date	Nov 7, 2023
Grant date	Nov 7, 2023

Abstract

A measuring device for measuring an elevator shaft has two cable-like, elongate guide elements that extend in parallel with one another, a measuring platform and a lifting apparatus. Each of the guide elements is fixedly attached to an upper holding point and a lower holding point in the elevator shaft and is tensioned between the upper holding point and the lower holding point. The measuring platform has guide apparatuses that laterally support the measuring platform on the guide elements and guide the measuring platform parallel to the guide elements during a displacement movement in a displacement direction. The measuring platform has a distance measuring apparatus to measure lateral distances to the lateral walls of the elevator shaft. The lifting apparatus moves the measuring platform in the displacement direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A measuring device for measuring an elevator shaft, the measuring device comprising:
two elongate guide elements extending in parallel with one another vertically in the elevator shaft, each of the guide elements being fixedly attached to an upper holding point and a lower holding point in the elevator shaft and being tensioned between the upper holding point and the lower holding point;
a measuring platform positioned in the elevator shaft, the measuring platform having guide apparatuses that laterally support the measuring platform on the guide elements and guide the measuring platform parallel to the guide elements during a displacement movement of the measuring platform in a displacement direction in the elevator shaft;
a lifting apparatus installed in the elevator shaft and attached to the measuring platform, the lifting apparatus being adapted to move the measuring platform in the displacement direction during the displacement movement;
wherein the measuring platform has a distance measuring apparatus for measuring lateral distances to lateral walls of the elevator shaft; and
wherein the guide apparatuses each have at least three rollers arranged such that a first of the at least three rollers has a circumferential surface that rolls along a first surface of one of the guide elements during the displacement movement, and a second of the at least three rollers has a circumferential surface that rolls along a second surface of the one guide element, the second surface being opposite the first surface, during the displacement movement.

2. The measuring device according to claim 1 wherein at least one of the guide apparatuses is arranged on one side of the measuring platform and another of the guide apparatuses is arranged on an opposite side of the measuring platform.

3. The measuring device according to claim 1 wherein the circumferential surfaces of the first roller and the second roller are concave.

4. The measuring device according to claim 1 wherein the guide elements are at least partially formed of a non-metal material.

5. The measuring device according to claim 1 wherein the distance measuring apparatus measures the lateral distances contactlessly.

6. The measuring device according to claim 1 wherein the distance measuring apparatus measures the lateral distances in at least two different lateral directions.

7. The measuring device according to claim 1 wherein the distance measuring apparatus includes a laser distance measuring device and measures the lateral distances using a laser beam rotatingly oriented in a plurality of directions in a horizontal plane.

8. The measuring device according to claim 1 including a height measuring apparatus attached to the measuring platform and adapted to measure a current height position of the measuring platform within the elevator shaft.

9. The measuring device according to claim 8 wherein the height measuring apparatus measures the current height position of the measuring platform by an air pressure measurement.

10. The measuring device according to claim 1 including an acceleration sensor attached to the measuring platform and adapted to measure accelerations acting on the measuring platform.

11. The measuring device according to claim 1 including a plumb line hanging freely in the elevator shaft, wherein the distance measuring apparatus measures a lateral distance to the plumb line.

12. The measuring device according to claim 11 wherein the distance measuring apparatus includes a laser distance measuring device that measures the lateral distance to the plumb line.

13. A method of measuring an elevator, the method comprising the steps of:
installing the measuring device according to claim 1 in the elevator shaft;
operating the lifting apparatus to move the measuring platform in the displacement direction; and
operating the distance measuring apparatus of the platform to measure lateral distances to lateral walls of the elevator shaft.

14. The method according to claim 13 including transmitting determined measurement results representing the measured lateral distances to an external evaluation unit.

15. A measuring device for measuring an elevator shaft, the measuring device comprising:
two elongate guide elements extending in parallel with one another vertically in the elevator shaft, each of the guide elements being fixedly attached to an upper holding point and a lower holding point in the elevator shaft and being tensioned between the upper holding point and the lower holding point;
a measuring platform positioned in the elevator shaft, the measuring platform having guide apparatuses that laterally support the measuring platform on the guide elements and guide the measuring platform parallel to the guide elements during a displacement movement of the measuring platform in a displacement direction in the elevator shaft;
a lifting apparatus installed in the elevator shaft and attached to the measuring platform, the lifting apparatus being adapted to move the measuring platform in the displacement direction during the displacement movement;
wherein the measuring platform has a distance measuring apparatus for measuring lateral distances to lateral walls of the elevator shaft;
wherein the guide apparatuses each have at least three rollers arranged such that a first of the at least three rollers has a circumferential surface that rolls along a first surface of one of the guide elements during the displacement movement, and a second of the at least three rollers has a circumferential surface that rolls along a second surface of the one guide element, the second surface being opposite the first surface, during the displacement movement;
wherein the distance measuring apparatus includes a first laser distance measuring device and measures the lateral distances using a laser beam rotatingly oriented in different directions in a horizontal plane;
a height measuring apparatus attached to the measuring platform and adapted to measure a current height position of the measuring platform within the elevator shaft;
an acceleration sensor attached to the measuring platform and adapted to measure accelerations acting on the measuring platform;
a plumb line hanging freely in the elevator shaft, wherein the distance measuring apparatus includes a second laser distance measuring device that measures a lateral distance to the plumb line; and
a control unit connected to and controlling operations of the first laser distance measuring device, the height measuring apparatus, the acceleration sensor and the second laser distance measuring device.

Assignees

• Inventio Ag

Inventors

• Zimmerli Philipp
• Bitzi Raphael

Classifications

• B66B19/00 Primary

  Mining-hoist operation · CPC title

• G01B11/14

  for measuring distance or clearance between spaced objects or spaced apertures (G01B11/26 takes precedence; rangefinders G01C3/00) · CPC title