CN105035897B - Lift facility - Google Patents

Lift facility Download PDF

Info

Publication number
CN105035897B
CN105035897B CN201510216612.9A CN201510216612A CN105035897B CN 105035897 B CN105035897 B CN 105035897B CN 201510216612 A CN201510216612 A CN 201510216612A CN 105035897 B CN105035897 B CN 105035897B
Authority
CN
China
Prior art keywords
lift
cleaning unit
cleaning
lift car
facility according
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Active
Application number
CN201510216612.9A
Other languages
Chinese (zh)
Other versions
CN105035897A (en
Inventor
彼得·柯林斯
约翰·寇松
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Yingshengda (Guangzhou) Photoelectric Technology Co. Ltd.
Original Assignee
Yingshengda (guangzhou) Photoelectric Technology Co Ltd
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Yingshengda (guangzhou) Photoelectric Technology Co Ltd filed Critical Yingshengda (guangzhou) Photoelectric Technology Co Ltd
Publication of CN105035897A publication Critical patent/CN105035897A/en
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of CN105035897B publication Critical patent/CN105035897B/en
Active legal-status Critical Current
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical

Links

Classifications

    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66BELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B13/00Doors, gates, or other apparatus controlling access to, or exit from, cages or lift well landings
    • B66B13/24Safety devices in passenger lifts, not otherwise provided for, for preventing trapping of passengers
    • B66B13/26Safety devices in passenger lifts, not otherwise provided for, for preventing trapping of passengers between closing doors

Landscapes

  • Elevator Door Apparatuses (AREA)
  • Cage And Drive Apparatuses For Elevators (AREA)

Abstract

A kind of lift facility 10 is provided, including:The lift car 20 that can be moved in lift well 12, the lift car 20 have optics door sensor 100;With cleaning unit 40,41,42,43, the cleaning unit 40,41,42,43 is installed in lift well 12 and is configured to when the movement of lift car in the shaft makes optics door sensor 100 pass through cleaning unit, and optics door sensor 100 is cleaned in clean operation.A kind of method of optics door sensor 100 for safeguarding lift facility 10 is also provided.

Description

Lift facility
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of lift facility, in particular to a kind of lift facility including cleaning unit, the cleaning unit It is installed in the vertical shaft of lift facility and is configured to clean the optics door sensor of lift car.
Background technique
Typical lift facility has lift well, and many of the lift well stops corresponding to the predetermined of building floor It stands(stop)And the lift car that can be moved in lift well.Lift car usually has one or two door, and elevator Vertical shaft is at each place of stopping usually with the shaft door of respective numbers.
Known lift facility is equipped with multiple sensors to guarantee the safe operation of lift facility especially door.Lift car Being typically provided with optics door sensor, there are barriers in front of elevator cab door for detecting(Such as people or object).Known optics Door sensor includes break beam sensor(break beam sensor), the break beam sensor lift car outdoors Side(That is, at lift car stop locate when, between elevator cab door and lift-well door)Form the light curtain of infrared light.The light Learning door sensor can have the transmitter array for emitting optical signal, and the receiver array for detecting optical signal.It is logical Often, when the optical signal emitted is not detected by the receiver, optics door sensor determines may deposit in front of elevator cab door In barrier.
The operation of this lift facility depends on optics door sensor and determines barrier presence or absence.For example, lift car Before can starting to move, it usually needs barrier is not present in confirmation, and if optics door sensor is determined there are barrier, Can then it prevent elevator cab door from closing.Therefore, if optics door sensor determines that there are barriers, it can substantially be closed Lift facility is closed, hence into building.
The performance of optics door sensor can depend on the operating condition of lift facility.In the environment of especially dirty swollen or more dirt In, the material that may partially or completely block the optical signal at transmitter and/or receiver can be deposited on optics door sensor. Therefore, the accumulation of material can prevent receiver from detecting the optical signal emitted by transmitter, so as to cause optics door sensor It cannot correctly determine that there are barriers, and it is mobile with lift car therefore to prevent door from closing.Therefore, material is passed in optical gates The deterioration of other operating conditions of accumulation or optics door sensor on sensor may cause lift facility and temporarily stop using.
Although optics door sensor can be cleaned by hand to restore normal use, this can be intractable process and maintenance Personnel may fully train without process.Further, it is generally recognized that maintenance personnel must be convened to clean optical gates sensing Device, this meeting cost is very high and will lead to Delay Service reentry(service re-entry).
Further, it has been discovered by the applicants that maintenance personnel's frequency in the case where optics door sensor is faulty false supposition It is replaced numerously, cleans it without considering.In general, more emat sensor will enable normal use to restore, therefore optical gates sense That there are the hypothesis of failure is usually not controversial for device.Therefore, the lift facility in dirty swollen and/or more dirt environment is especially susceptible to stop It only uses, to frequently result in replacement optics door sensor, this meeting cost is very high.
Further, once optical sensor could not operate normally, usually with regard to the operating condition of detection optical sensor Deterioration, because of investigation the reason of can then initiate about failure.
Accordingly, it is desirable to provide a kind of improved lift facility that can overcome the above problem.
Summary of the invention
According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a kind of lift facility, including:The elevator that can be moved in lift well Carriage, the lift car have optics door sensor;And cleaning unit, the cleaning unit are mounted in the elevator shaft and are matched It is set to when the movement of lift car in the shaft makes optics door sensor pass through cleaning unit, optics is cleaned in clean operation Door sensor.Therefore, when lift car passes through cleaning unit, optics door sensor can automatically be carried out by cleaning unit clear It is clean.The cleaning unit is mounted in the elevator shaft and separates with lift car.
Cleaning unit may include the cleaning element for cleaning optics door sensor.Cleaning element can be any suitable Type, such as brush, cleaning pad or air blower.
Lift facility can also include electric life controller, and it is perpendicular in elevator which is configured to control lift car Speed in well.The electric life controller may be configured so that speed of the lift car during clean operation is less than or equal to Limit cleaning speed(limit cleaning speed).The limit cleaning speed can be scheduled.The limit cleaning speed can To be set such that clean operation has minimum duration.The limit cleaning speed can be set so that lift car not Cleaning unit can be moved through with excessively high speed, this may damage cleaning unit, optics door sensor and/or elevator car Compartment.
Cleaning unit can be installed in the terminal part of lift well, the maximum operation of the elevator in the lift well Speed is less than or equal to limit cleaning speed.Cleaning unit, which is mounted in the terminal part of lift well, can have such effect Fruit:In use, clean operation only carries out during the startup stage of lift car or stop phase.Therefore, because elevator Carriage is always at the stage of starting or stoping, so maximum operational speed of the lift car in clean operation can be less than or wait In limit cleaning speed, elevator is applied to by electric life controller with the purpose just to cleaning unit and/or clean operation The limit in the speed of carriage is opposite.Therefore, when lift facility is transformed to include cleaning unit, it may not be necessary to which modification updates Electric life controller.In general, it is the part of lift well being least accessed frequently that upper terminal, which stops,.Therefore, cleaning unit is pacified It may mean that the average time interval between clean operation is maximized in the upper terminal part of lift well, this can be advantageous In the service life for extending cleaning unit and/or optics door sensor.
Cleaning unit can be expanded to deployment configuration from rest configuration, and in the deployment configuration, it, which is arranged to, works as optical gates When sensor passes through cleaning unit, optics door sensor is cleaned in clean operation.On the contrary, in rest configuration, cleaning unit It is arranged such that optics door sensor can be by cleaning unit, without being cleaned.Therefore, when cleaning unit is in expansion structure When making, cleaning unit can only clean optics door sensor, this can improve cleaning unit and/or optics by limitation abrasion The service life of sensor.
Cleaning unit may be configured to after clean operation, be moved to rest configuration from deployment configuration automatically.Change sentence It talks about, cleaning unit may be configured to after clean operation, is not unfolded or retracts automatically.Lift facility may include returning Mechanism, the gigback are configured to cleaning unit being moved to rest configuration from deployment configuration.The gigback may include Cooperation configuration on lift car and cleaning unit is set(cooperating formation).
Cleaning unit is unfolded and is selectively not expanded in which may be configured so that its property of can choose.For example, When receiving the instruction of request or control system, cleaning unit can be unfolded and be not expanded.
Cleaning unit may include resilient supporting unit, which is arranged to when cleaning unit is grasped in cleaning When being in deployment configuration during work, the movement of the cleaning unit is accommodated.For example, cleaning unit may include the cleaning of cleaning unit Flexible support arm or spring support member between the attachment point or installation point of cleaning unit in element and lift well.
Lift facility may include the cleaning sensor when carried out for determining clean operation.For example, cleaning passes Sensor can be pressure sensor or strain gauge, and the pressure sensor or strain gauge are arranged to sensing optics door sensor and clear The engagement of clean unit.
Optics door sensor may include the transmitter for emitting optical signal and the receiver for detecting optical signal, And lift facility may include the cleaning unit for transmitter and the cleaning unit for receiver.There may be include more The transmitter array of a transmitter and receiver array including multiple receivers.
Lift facility can also include the cleaning controller for selectively initiating clean operation.The cleaning controller can Cleaning behaviour is initiated to be configured to move through cleaning unit by expansion cleaning unit and/or by calling lift car Make.Cleaning controller can be a part of electric life controller, or optionally, it can be independently of electric life controller.Cleaning Controller can connect to electric life controller, so as to which calling lift car moves through cleaning unit.
Cleaning controller may be configured to periodically initiate clean operation.It states " periodically initiating clean operation " It is intended to mean that and periodically initiates clean operation, but not necessarily to pass through time interval based on regular.For example, can pass through Monitor the quantity of lift car stroke and in predetermined quantity(Or threshold value)Stroke(Such as 50 strokes)Clean operation is initiated later Periodically to initiate clean operation.
Cleaning controller may be configured at least one parameters of elevator run of monitoring lift facility and for example with predetermined Frequency clean operation is initiated based at least one described parameters of elevator run.Optionally, join when at least one elevator is run When number reaches scheduled cleaning threshold value, clean operation can be initiated.When initiating clean operation or work as determining clean operation When progress, at least one parameters of elevator run can be reset.For example, when initiating clean operation or determining that clean operation has carried out When, parameters of elevator run related with the quantity for the carriage stroke completed can be reset as zero, even if based on different electricity Terraced operating parameter(Such as by the time(For example, operating the later process time from finally clean)To initiate clean operation.
At least one parameters of elevator run can selected from by lift car using the time, lift car journey time, Counting, the lift car stroke of counting, the elevator door opening and/or shutoff operation completed that the lift car completed stops Counting and lift car walked distance composition group.Further, at least one parameters of elevator run can be and electricity Terraced carriage uses time, the journey time of lift car, the counting that the lift car completed stops, the elevator door completed The combination for the distance that the counting of opening and/or shutoff operation, the counting of lift car stroke and lift car are walked is related Composite elevator operating parameter.For example, can be stopped based on the lift car other than the quantity of door opening and/or shutoff operation Quantity calculate parameters of elevator run.
Lift facility can also include test module, which is configured to test optics door sensor.Cleaning control Device processed may be configured to for example when test module determines the operation nargin of optics door sensor less than or equal to the nargin limit, Clean operation is initiated in output based on test module.Test module may be configured to the operating condition of simulated optical door sensor Deterioration and determine optics door sensor whether continue to operate normally.
It can be by relative to normal operation(That is, the optical signal from transmitter can be detected by corresponding receiver It arrives)The baseline state offset one or more sensors operating parameter of optics door sensor carry out the deterioration of simulated operation condition. For example, the light intensity for the optical signal that can be emitted by reduction by transmitter, reduces the sensitivity of receiver(Or the ratio of gains)And/or Noise signal is introduced by changing one predetermined amount of signal-to-noise ratio come the deterioration of simulated operation condition.For example, the light intensity of optical signal can be with It is lowered 20 %.Test module may be configured to by determining whether the optical signal from transmitter can be received accordingly Determine whether optics door sensor continues to operate normally detected by device.It, can be true if optical signal cannot be detected Surely operation nargin, which is less than or equal to, corresponds to predetermined amount(For example, reducing the light intensity of 20 %)The nargin limit, and can send out Play clean operation.If optical signal can be detected, it can determine that operation nargin is greater than or equal to the nargin limit, thus can Not initiate clean operation.
Test module may be configured to determine whether that clean operation has carried out.Therefore, test module and optical gates pass Sensor can form cleaning sensor, for determining that clean operation has carried out.For example, test module may be configured to pass through The output of assessment receiver has carried out to detect clean operation.Test module can be determined when the output of receiver shows at it When the light intensity of upper received optical signal increases, clean operation has been carried out.
According to another aspect of the present invention, a kind of any statement herein of basis is provided to safeguard the light of lift facility The method for learning door sensor, which includes the cleaning controller for selectively initiating clean operation, this method packet It includes:Test optics door sensor;And clean operation is initiated based on the result of test.
Detailed description of the invention
Now, referring to the following drawings, present invention is described by way of example, wherein:
Fig. 1 schematically shows the lift facility of embodiment according to the present invention;
Fig. 2 schematically shows the lift cars of the lift facility of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 shows static cleaning unit
Fig. 4 shows air blower cleaning unit;
Fig. 5 shows cam-operated cleaning unit;
Fig. 6 shows another cam-operated cleaning unit;With
Fig. 7 shows the cleaning unit with suspension strut.
Specific embodiment
Fig. 1 shows lift facility 10, which includes lift well 12, with optics door sensor 100 Lift car 20 and cleaning unit 40.
In the present embodiment, lift well 14 includes three groups of shaft doors of three corresponding floors 16 for building 12。
Lift car 20 includes carrying space 22 and a pair of of elevator cab door 24.Lift car 20 can correspond to building Floor 16 it is multiple it is predetermined stop between lift well 12 in move.It is upper predetermined to stop and lower predetermined stop(Or terminal)Quilt It is arranged in the terminal part 18 of lift well 12.Terminal part 18 is the part of lift well 12, the end including lift well 12, As will be described below in more detail like that.It is additionally provided with electric life controller(It is not shown)For controlling lift car 20 in elevator Movement in vertical shaft 12, in particular, the speed for controlling lift car 20.Electric life controller may be accommodated in lift car In 20, lift facility it is other place or at a distance.
Lift car 20 is additionally provided with optics door sensor 100, which passes through sensor mount (sensor mount)26 are attached to lift car 10.The optics door sensor 100 includes the hair for emitting infrared signal Transmitter array 101 and receiver array 105 for detecting optical signal(Fig. 2).Sensor mount 26, which is arranged to, to be emitted Device array 101 and receiver array 105 are maintained in the space between the walls of lift car 20 and lift well 12.Especially Ground, sensor mount 26 keeps transmitter array 101 and receiver array 105 opposite to each other and is aligned, so that they can To be limited in the space between the lift-well door 14 at lift-well door 12 and the position of stopping for being mounted on lift facility 10 Light curtain 103 between them, the light curtain 103 is by individual infrared signal 104(Or light beam)Array composition.Transmitter array 101 and receiver array 105 respectively include multiple individual transmitters 102 and receiver 106.
Two cleaning units 40(One of them is shown in FIG. 1)Be mounted on it is predetermined stop and it is intermediate it is predetermined stop between (That is, between upper floor and intermediate floor 16)Lift well upper terminal part 18 in lift well in.40 quilt of cleaning unit It is arranged to clean respectively in clean operation when being installed to the optics door sensor 100 of lift car by cleaning unit 40 Transmitter array 101 and receiver array 105.Cleaning unit 40 is mounted in the elevator shaft by any device appropriate. For example, the attachment of cleaning unit 40 can be installed to the structural support of lift well or building by multiple bolts(Such as Beam).Electric life controller includes the cleaning controller for initiating clean operation, as described below such.
Fig. 3 shows the first embodiment of cleaning unit 41 according to the present invention, wherein during clean operation, cleaning The transmitter array 101 of the cleaning optics door sensor 100 of unit 41.In the present embodiment, cleaning unit is to be arranged to not phase For the mobile static cleaning unit of lift well 12.
Cleaning unit 41 includes attachment 45, and by the attachment 45, which is installed in lift well 12; Cleaning head 46 and cleaning element 44, the cleaning element 44 are secured on cleaning head 46.In the present embodiment, cleaning element 44 is Brush with multiple bristles, the bristle are arranged to engagement transmitter array 101 to clean transmitter array 101.
Equipped with corresponding cleaning unit 41 for cleaning receiver array 105.
In use, movement of the electric life controller control lift car 20 in lift well 12.Particularly, elevator controlling Device controls lift car 20 from static acceleration and controls lift car 20 towards deceleration of stopping.Electric life controller is also by lift car 20 maximum speed in lift well, which is limited in, passes through speed(It is three meters such as per second).
When in the terminal part 18 in lift well, lift car 20 is either always static or beginning rank in movement Section accelerates from stopping or slows down in stop phase to stopping.Therefore, highest running speed of the lift car 20 in terminal part 18 It is respectively further from by elevator and is determined towards the acceleration and deceleration stopped.
Optics door sensor 100 is physically contacted with since cleaning unit 41 is arranged to, lift facility is configured so that The maximum operational speed of lift car 20 is less than or equal to preset limit cleaning speed.This prevents lift car 20, optical gates from passing Sensor 100 and cleaning unit 41 are damaged during clean operation due to excessively high speed.For example, limit cleaning speed can To be 0.5-2 meter per second.
In the present embodiment, the range of terminal part 18 is defined so that maximum operation of the lift car 20 in terminal part 18 Speed is less than or equal to preset limit cleaning speed.Therefore, the range of terminal part depends on limit cleaning speed and in elevator control The acceleration and deceleration parameters being arranged in device processed.Therefore, in the present embodiment, electric life controller does not need to be configured to grasp in cleaning The speed of service of elevator is limited in limit cleaning speed during work, as long as cleaning unit 41 is positioned in the end of lift well 12 In end 18.Therefore, if cleaning unit is modified, electric life controller does not need upgrading to be applicable in limitation(cap).? In other embodiments, electric life controller may be configured to be applicable in this limitation, no matter whether the cleaning unit is positioned to electricity In the terminal part 18 of terraced vertical shaft 12.
In use, because cleaning unit 41 be it is static, whenever optics door sensor 100 pass through cleaning unit 41 When, clean operation just will do it.Therefore, clean operation carries out automatically in the normal use of elevator.
In addition, cleaning controller is configured to move through cleaning unit 41 by calling elevator to initiate clean operation. Particularly, when in the upper terminal part 18 that cleaning unit 41 is located at lift well, cleaning controller can call lift car 20 The upper terminal for being moved to the upper floor 16 corresponding to building stops.
Further, cleaning controller is configured to periodically initiate clean operation according to time-based dispatch list, Such as once a day.
Cleaning controller is further configured to the parameters of elevator run of monitoring lift facility and is sent out based on parameters of elevator run Play clean operation.For example, in the present embodiment, cleaning the quantity of controller monitoring lift car stroke, the number of door shutoff operation The accumulated travel time of amount and lift car.Respectively each of these parameters of elevator run setting cleaning threshold value(Such as 50 lift car strokes, 100 door shutoff operations and 1 hour journey time).No matter its in these parameters of elevator run In one when reach its respective threshold value, which all initiates clean operation.In the present embodiment, once cleaning is grasped It being initiated or is confirmed as having carried out, parameters of elevator run can be reset, but in other embodiments, elevator fortune Row parameter can be reset independently of one another.
Therefore, cleaning unit 41 prevents material stacking on the optical sensor, so that it continues to operate normally, to avoid Lift facility is stopped using.Cleaning unit 41 also reduces the burden for safeguarding lift facility.
Fig. 4 shows the second embodiment of cleaning unit 42 according to the present invention.In the present embodiment, cleaning unit 42 is Non-contact cleaning unit, the cleaning unit are arranged to cleaning transmitter array 101, without carrying out with transmitter array 101 Physical contact.
Cleaning unit 41 shown in cleaning unit 42 and Fig. 3 is the difference is that cleaning element 46 is for guiding transmitting Air at device array 101 is to clean the air blower with multiple nozzles 48 of transmitter array.Therefore, in the present embodiment In, cleaning unit 42 further includes the power supply for air blower 46(It is not shown).
In use, cleaning controller control air blower 46, which opens and closes, is used for each clean operation.Cleaning control When device may be configured to when lift car 20 is by cleaning unit 42 or will be by cleaning unit 42, air blower is opened 46, so that each opportunity carries out clean operation.Therefore, cleaning controller monitoring such as the elevator car that is controlled by electric life controller The position in compartment 20.Optionally, cleaning controller may be configured to only when initiating clean operation, that is, when 20 quilt of lift car Calling with pass through cleaning unit 42 when, open air blower 46, as above described in the first embodiment of the present invention as.
Fig. 5 shows the 3rd embodiment of cleaning unit 43 according to the present invention.In the present embodiment, cleaning unit 43 can Deployment configuration is expanded into from rest configuration, in the rest configuration, the transmitter array 101 of optics door sensor 100 can lead to Cleaning unit 43 is crossed, without contacting cleaning unit 43 and not cleaned, in the deployment configuration, when transmitter array 101 is logical When crossing cleaning unit, which will be cleaned in clean operation by cleaning unit 43.Cleaning unit 43 be also Cleaning unit based on contact, during clean operation, transmitter array 101 connects the cleaning element 44 with cleaning unit 43 It closes.
Cleaning unit 43 includes the support arm 54 for being used to support slidable channel washer 56, cleaning head 46 and cleaning element 48 It is mounted to the support arm 54.Channel washer, cleaning head 46 and cleaning element 48 can slide between rest configuration and deployment configuration. Two tension springs 57 connect cleaning head 46 and support arm 54 and act on so that cleaning head 46 is biased to rest configuration(That is, towards branch Brace 54).
Cleaning unit 43 further includes the motor 58 for driving cam 60, which is arranged to connects with channel washer 56 It closes.Support arm 54, motor 58 and cam 61 are mounted in lift well 12 by the attachment 45 of cleaning unit 43.
Cleaning unit 43 further includes electric machine controller(It is not shown), the electric machine controller is for operation motor 58 and cam 60 To move cleaning unit 43 between rest configuration and deployment configuration.
In Fig. 5, cleaning unit 43 is shown with deployment configuration, and in the deployment configuration, channel washer 56 engages cam 60 Maximum radius portion, so that channel washer 56, cleaning head 46 and cleaning element 44 deviate the axis maximum and cleaning element of cam 44 are arranged in engagement transmitter array 101 in clean operation.
Cleaning unit 43 can be moved to rest configuration and making 58 rotation cam 60 of motor.The rotation of cam 60 is again Channel washer 56 is set to imitate the profile of cam under the bias of tension spring 57, so that cleaning head 46 and cleaning element 44 are far from transmitter battle array Column 101 are moved and are moved towards support arm 54(Enter rest configuration).
Clean controller(It is not shown)Movement of the cleaning unit 43 between rest configuration and deployment configuration is controlled, it such as will be As being described in detail below.
In use, only when initiating clean operation, cleaning controller is selectively by cleaning unit 43 from rest configuration It is expanded to deployment configuration.In the present embodiment, cleaning unit 43 can be by being simply expanded to shown in Fig. 5 by clean operation Deployment configuration and awaiting elevator carriage 20 by cleaning unit 43 or alternately through expansion cleaning unit 43 and calling Lift car 20 by cleaning unit 43 to be initiated.
Therefore, cleaning unit 43 makes to when carrying out clean operation and be able to carry out control, this can help ensure that clearly Clean unit will not be worn.In addition, being installed in 18 outside of terminal part of lift well in cleaning unit 43(That is, lift car 20 The speed of service can be higher than preset limit cleaning speed)Embodiment in, only when cleaning unit 43 is in deployment configuration, clearly Clean unit allows the limited speed of lift car, because not needing limitation elevator car when cleaning unit 43 is in rest configuration The speed in compartment.
Fig. 6 shows the modification of cleaning unit 43 shown in Fig. 5, wherein transmitter array 101 is equipped with oblique in its lower end Slope 62, the slope 62 are configured to when lift car 20 is moved up relative to cleaning unit 43, are forced cleaning unit 43 Rest configuration is returned to from deployment configuration.
In use, only when lift car 20 is below cleaning unit 43, cleaning controller control cleaning unit 43 is moved Move deployment configuration.Then, when lift car 20 moves up, cleaning unit 43 engages transmitter array 101, and is cleaning It is cleaned in operation.After clean operation, slope 62 engages cleaning head 46 and/or cleaning element 44, to make it It is moved back into rest configuration.
The advantages of arrangement, is, after clean operation, cleaning unit 43 can be automatically moved back to rest configuration, and nothing Controller, which need to be cleaned, must determine that the clean operation has carried out.
Similarly, in other embodiments, slope 62 can be positioned in transmitter array 101(Or receiver array 105)Upper end, and and if only if when lift car 20 is above cleaning unit 43, cleaning controller can control cleaning unit 43 It is moved to deployment configuration.
Fig. 7 shows another embodiment of cleaning unit 64.It is shown in cleaning unit 64 and Fig. 3 and above-described clear Clean unit 41 the difference is that only that cleaning head 46 is mounted to the attachment 45 of cleaning unit 64 by elastic arm 66, in this reality It applies in example, which includes compressed spring.Elastic arm 66, which is arranged to cleaning head 46 and cleaning element 44, provides elastic branch Support, the resilient support force cleaning element 44 towards a part of optics door sensor 100 to be cleaned(In this example, emit Device array 101).When elastic arm 66 engages optics door sensor 100, which can accommodate the movement of cleaning element, To reduce the likelihood that any component is damaged during clean operation.Elastic arm 66 also makes cleaning element correspond to bullet Property arm 66(That is, compressed spring)Spring constant relative constant load under be forced against optics door sensor 100.
It can be modified to include for carrying out autodiagnosis to optics door sensor 100 according to the lift facility of above-described embodiment The test module of disconnected test.In such an embodiment, it is clear to initiate to be configured to the output based on test module for cleaning controller Clean operation.In the exemplary embodiment, self-diagnostic test includes:It is pre- by the light intensity one for temporarily reducing the optical signal from transmitter It is quantitative(Such as 20 %)Carry out the deterioration of the operating condition of simulated optical door sensor 100, and by determining from transmitter Whether optical signal can determine whether optics door sensor continues to operate normally detected by corresponding receiver.If light Signal cannot be detected, it is determined that the operation nargin of optics door sensor is less than or equal to the nargin pole corresponding to predetermined amount Limit.Cleaning controller is configured to initiate clean operation when operation nargin is confirmed as being less than the nargin limit.
In such an embodiment, electric life controller is configured to only not need optics door sensor when lift car 20 is in In existing construction to detect barrier, the test to optics door sensor is initiated.For example, electric life controller can be configured At only when elevator cab door and shaft door are all closed, initiation is tested, and electric life controller can prevent an opening until surveying Examination is completed.
It should be understood that term " light " refers to including visible light and black light(Such as infrared light and ultraviolet light)Electricity Magnetic radiation.

Claims (15)

1. a kind of lift facility, including:
Lift car, the lift car can move in lift well, which has optics door sensor;With
Cleaning unit, the cleaning unit are mounted in the elevator shaft and are configured to when the movement of lift car in the shaft When optics door sensor being made to pass through cleaning unit, optics door sensor is cleaned in clean operation.
2. lift facility according to claim 1, which further includes electric life controller, which is matched It is set to the speed of control lift car in the elevator shaft.
3. lift facility according to claim 2, wherein electric life controller is configured so that lift car is grasped in cleaning Speed during work is less than or equal to limit cleaning speed.
4. lift facility according to claim 1, wherein cleaning unit is installed in the terminal part of lift well, In the lift well, the maximum operational speed of elevator is less than or equal to limit cleaning speed.
5. lift facility according to claim 1, wherein cleaning unit is installed in the terminal part of lift well, is made It obtains in use, clean operation only carries out during the incipient stage of lift car or stop phase.
6. lift facility according to claim 1, wherein cleaning unit can be expanded to deployment configuration from rest configuration, In deployment configuration, which is arranged to when optics door sensor passes through cleaning unit, cleans in clean operation Optics door sensor.
7. lift facility according to claim 6, wherein cleaning unit can be selectively unfolded and selectively It is not expanded.
8. lift facility according to claim 1, wherein optics door sensor includes the transmitting for emitting optical signal Device and receiver for detecting optical signal, and wherein, lift facility includes for the cleaning unit of transmitter and for connecing Receive the cleaning unit of device.
9. lift facility according to claim 1, which further includes for selectively initiating clean operation Clean controller.
10. lift facility according to claim 9, wherein cleaning controller be configured to by expansion cleaning unit come Initiate clean operation.
11. lift facility according to claim 9 or 10, wherein cleaning controller is configured to by calling elevator car Compartment moves through cleaning unit to initiate clean operation.
12. lift facility according to claim 9 or 10, wherein cleaning controller is configured to periodically initiate clearly Clean operation.
13. lift facility according to claim 9 or 10, wherein cleaning controller is configured to monitor lift facility At least one parameters of elevator run and clean operation is initiated based at least one described parameters of elevator run.
14. lift facility according to claim 13, wherein at least one parameters of elevator run is selected from by lift car Opened using time, the journey time of lift car, the counting that the lift car completed stops, the elevator door completed and/ Or the group of distance composition that the counting of shutoff operation, the counting of lift car stroke and lift car are walked.
15. lift facility according to claim 9 or 10, which further includes test module, the test module quilt It is configured to test optics door sensor, wherein cleaning controller is configured to the output based on test module to initiate cleaning behaviour Make.
CN201510216612.9A 2014-05-02 2015-04-30 Lift facility Active CN105035897B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
GB1407839.8A GB2525682A (en) 2014-05-02 2014-05-02 An elevator installation
GB1407839.8 2014-05-02

Publications (2)

Publication Number Publication Date
CN105035897A CN105035897A (en) 2015-11-11
CN105035897B true CN105035897B (en) 2018-11-30

Family

ID=50980552

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
CN201510216612.9A Active CN105035897B (en) 2014-05-02 2015-04-30 Lift facility

Country Status (2)

Country Link
CN (1) CN105035897B (en)
GB (1) GB2525682A (en)

Families Citing this family (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US10246295B2 (en) * 2016-04-06 2019-04-02 Otis Elevator Company Protective device for speed sensing device
CN110998682B (en) * 2017-06-23 2022-08-19 G.A.L.制造有限公司 Door detection system and method
CN110697523B (en) * 2019-09-05 2022-07-01 上海三菱电梯有限公司 Self-cleaning device and method for photoelectric leveling sensor and elevator equipment
WO2021219919A1 (en) * 2020-04-27 2021-11-04 Kone Corporation A method, an elevator control unit, and a system for generating a cleaning request to clean at least one elevator element
JP7180810B1 (en) 2022-05-25 2022-11-30 三菱電機株式会社 elevator system

Citations (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4452009A (en) * 1981-12-03 1984-06-05 Inventio Ag Light barrier, particularly for automatically actuated lift cabin doors
CN102137807A (en) * 2008-09-01 2011-07-27 富士达株式会社 Safety device for elevator
JP2013147339A (en) * 2012-01-23 2013-08-01 Hitachi Ltd Elevator system and elevator inspection method

Family Cites Families (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2685496B1 (en) * 1991-12-18 1994-04-01 Otis Elevator Cy OBSTACLE DETECTION AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL DEVICE FOR SLIDING DOORS, PARTICULARLY FOR ELEVATOR DOORS.
JPH08192978A (en) * 1995-01-12 1996-07-30 Mitsubishi Denki Bill Techno Service Kk Photoelectric device for shutting door of elevator
JPH09255266A (en) * 1996-03-21 1997-09-30 Toshiba Elevator Technos Kk Photoelectric door safety device for elevator
JPH10125188A (en) * 1996-10-17 1998-05-15 Mitsubishi Denki Bill Techno Service Kk Photoelectric device for elevator
JPH10265154A (en) * 1997-03-26 1998-10-06 Mitsubishi Electric Corp Door controller of elevator

Patent Citations (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4452009A (en) * 1981-12-03 1984-06-05 Inventio Ag Light barrier, particularly for automatically actuated lift cabin doors
CN102137807A (en) * 2008-09-01 2011-07-27 富士达株式会社 Safety device for elevator
JP2013147339A (en) * 2012-01-23 2013-08-01 Hitachi Ltd Elevator system and elevator inspection method

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
GB201407839D0 (en) 2014-06-18
GB2525682A (en) 2015-11-04
CN105035897A (en) 2015-11-11

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
CN105035897B (en) Lift facility
CN103998362B (en) Lift facility and parts thereof are by the fault diagnosis of sensor
CN105452139B (en) The monitoring system of lift facility
CN103375100B (en) There is for operation the method for the system of foldable member and there is the system of foldable member
US11518655B2 (en) Elevator component inspection systems
CN104291174B (en) The diagnostic equipment of elevator door and the diagnostic method of elevator door
CN101811635B (en) Rope swing detecting device for the elevator and control method for operation automaticlly recovering after earthquake
CN103402900A (en) Device for detecting sway of elevator rope
CN105555697A (en) Elevator device
CN106388724A (en) Glass curtain wall washing robot
US11548758B2 (en) Health monitoring systems and methods for elevator systems
CN102725218B (en) Elevator with safe position sensor
US20180119476A1 (en) Maintenance system for monitoring a gate device and method for monitoring a gate device
CN111003618B (en) Elevator car position determination
CN105173952A (en) Control device and control method for elevators
CN105366463A (en) Image surveillance device
US20200148504A1 (en) Monitoring system
US10239730B2 (en) Building sway operation system
KR101889943B1 (en) Monitoring apparatus of optical fiber underground transmission line
EP3640188A1 (en) Continuous quality monitoring of a conveyance system
CN109863106B (en) Automatic recovery system of elevator
CN103534191B (en) Lift appliance
KR20180058145A (en) A cleaner device for photosensor
CN101016131B (en) Elevator control device
CN111268526B (en) Vibration monitoring beacon mode detection and transition

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
C06 Publication
PB01 Publication
C10 Entry into substantive examination
SE01 Entry into force of request for substantive examination
C41 Transfer of patent application or patent right or utility model
TA01 Transfer of patent application right

Effective date of registration: 20161129

Address after: Guangdong city in Guangzhou Province Economic and Technological Development Zone No. 271 Wang Ming Road No. 09

Applicant after: Yingshengda (Guangzhou) Photoelectric Technology Co. Ltd.

Address before: British Swinton

Applicant before: ENSOTA LTD

GR01 Patent grant
GR01 Patent grant