EP3601130A1 - Installation d'ascenseur à plusieurs cabines et procédé de fonctionnement d'une installation d'ascenseur à plusieurs cabines - Google Patents

Installation d'ascenseur à plusieurs cabines et procédé de fonctionnement d'une installation d'ascenseur à plusieurs cabines

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EP3601130A1
EP3601130A1 EP18713185.9A EP18713185A EP3601130A1 EP 3601130 A1 EP3601130 A1 EP 3601130A1 EP 18713185 A EP18713185 A EP 18713185A EP 3601130 A1 EP3601130 A1 EP 3601130A1
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elevator
car
shaft
data
elevator car
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Richard Thum
Marius Matz
Eduard STEINHAUER
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TK Elevator Innovation and Operations GmbH
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ThyssenKrupp AG
ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG
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  • the invention relates to a multi-car lift installation and to a method for operating a multi-car lift installation, wherein the multi-car lift installation comprises a shaft system with at least one elevator shaft, a plurality of elevator cars that can be moved individually in the shaft system, and a control system.
  • the multi-car lift installation comprises a shaft system with at least one elevator shaft, a plurality of elevator cars that can be moved individually in the shaft system, and a control system.
  • data of the elevator cars are provided at intervals.
  • elevator systems are known, in which two or more elevator cars in a single elevator shaft individually, that is, essentially independently, are moved.
  • the method of the elevator cars can be carried out in particular by means of cable drives, in particular under the name
  • TWIN® are known.
  • Lift shafts movable elevator cabins are known in particular under the name MULTI.
  • a problem with such a multi-car elevator system arises when one of the elevator cars is affected by a fault, in particular from a communication fault.
  • a multi-car elevator installation can not continue to be operated in its normal operating mode, in particular since there is a risk that an elevator car will collide with the elevator car affected by the fault.
  • document EP 2 041 015 B1 proposes a method for controlling elevator cars in which, in the event of a detected communication fault, the elevator car affected by the communication fault turns into an elevator car Park position is moved outside the driveway, so that at least one remaining elevator car can serve as many floors as possible.
  • this proposed solution presupposes that the elevator installation maintains corresponding parking positions, which increases the space requirement for the elevator installation.
  • the solution requires that the elevator car affected by the disturbance can be moved even further, which is not always the case, in particular not without collision risk.
  • the proposed solution provides a method for operating a multi-car lift system, which comprises a shaft system with at least one hoistway, a plurality of elevator cabins that can be moved individually in the hoistway system, and a control system.
  • data of the elevator cars is provided at intervals, wherein a failure of the provision of the data of at least a first elevator car of the multi-car elevator system a shaft position of this first elevator car is determined, a quarantine section of the shaft system in which the first elevator car is located by means of the determined shaft position determined and the particular quarantine section is blocked for the further elevator cabins of the multi-cabin elevator system.
  • the area around the elevator car is advantageously secured so that there is no risk of collision between the at least one first elevator car of the multi-car elevator system and the other elevator car of the elevator system.
  • the blockage only affects a section of the shaft system
  • the other elevator cars outside the quarantine section can be moved further in the shaft system.
  • the delivery capacity of the multi-car lift system is advantageously increased in a deviation from normal operation.
  • the following data are provided in particular: status data which signal that the respective elevator car is working without errors; Acknowledgment data in response to received data; Operating data, in particular with regard to current speed, acceleration, deceleration, jerk, load, direction of travel and / or holding times; Position data; Error messages.
  • the position data are provided in short time intervals, quasi-continuously, for example every 15 milliseconds, whereas the status information is sent in comparatively longer time intervals, for example every 500 milliseconds.
  • the provision of the data can be carried out both wired and wireless, in particular by means of a radio link.
  • the elevator cabins of the multi-car elevator system are designed to record and to transmit the corresponding data.
  • the elevator cars each have a corresponding control unit, comprising a corresponding sensor and / or an evaluation unit and / or a transmitting unit and / or a Receiving unit on.
  • the provision of the data of the elevator cars is thus carried out in such an embodiment advantageously by the elevator cars or their control unit itself.
  • a wireless provision of the data of the elevator cars is advantageously provided, in particular to reduce the wiring.
  • monitoring of the elevator cars is provided as an embodiment variant, in particular by means of the control system of the multi-car elevator system, the control system providing the data by monitoring the elevator cars.
  • the multi-car lift installation comprises, in particular in this case, a shaft information system which, in particular, provides the control system with position data and / or operating data of the elevator cars.
  • a lack of provision of the data is given if within a predetermined time interval, the data or at least a part of the data provided for the provision is not provided.
  • a lack of provision of the data is given if within a plurality of directly consecutive predetermined time interval, in particular within two directly successive predetermined time intervals, the data or at least a part of the data provided for the provision is not provided.
  • a probable shaft position of this at least one first elevator car is determined, in particular starting from last available data influencing the shaft position of the at least one first elevator car.
  • the determination of the probable shaft position of the at least one first elevator car is a determination of the shaft position in the sense of the present invention.
  • the shaft position may in particular also be a shaft section, in particular if the shaft position can not be determined exactly.
  • a shaft section namely the quarantine section, is advantageously determined around this shaft position in such a way that the first elevator car is located with certainty, ie with a hundred percent probability, in this shaft section.
  • the shaft section can extend over a plurality of elevator shafts and / or can comprise an entire elevator shaft.
  • Locking the quarantine section advantageously prevents it from entering the quarantine section through further elevator cabins of the multi-car elevator system.
  • further elevator cars located in the quarantine section may advantageously be moved out of the quarantine section in such a way that a collision with the first elevator car is prevented.
  • the safe exit procedure from the quarantine section can be effected by reversing the direction of the further elevator car.
  • all elevator cars located in the quarantine section are shut down, preferably at a floor stop of the elevator installation. This advantageously makes it possible to get out of persons located in the elevator cars.
  • the control system of the multi-car lift system detects the data provided.
  • the control system further detects the failure to provide the data of the at least one first elevator car.
  • the control system is a decentralized control system with a plurality of control units. A detection of the data provided by the control system or a detection of a lack of provision of the data of one of the elevator cars by the control system can be carried out in particular by one or more of the control units of the decentralized control system.
  • position data of the elevator cars with regard to the position of the respective elevator car of the multi-car elevator installation in the shaft system are provided as data at temporal intervals.
  • This position data can be detected, for example, by means of a shaft information system.
  • Shaft information systems are known in the art.
  • the barcodes are assigned to clearly defined positions in the shaft system.
  • the elevator cars may have position detection units for detecting the current shaft position at which the respective elevator car is located.
  • the position data of the elevator cars are thereby advantageously detected by the control system in order to be able to take into account the respective position in the shaft system of the elevator cars in the allocation of elevator cars to calls set down by users. Furthermore, the position data are advantageously used by the control system to monitor compliance with intervals between the elevator cars, in particular to maintain safety distances, minimum distances and / or maximum distances between successive elevator cars.
  • the first elevator car in the absence of provision of the data of the first elevator car, the first elevator car is shut down, in particular by triggering a braking device of the first elevator car, preferably by triggering the service brake of the first elevator car or the safety gear.
  • a braking device of the first elevator car preferably by triggering the service brake of the first elevator car or the safety gear.
  • this advantageously prevents an elevator car from being moved in an uncontrolled manner, virtually in "blind flight", in the shaft system
  • the control system also requests an acknowledgment signal
  • the elevator car is shut down at the next floor stop, but if the confirmation signal fails, an emergency stop of the first elevator car is advantageously initiated immediately.
  • the control system determines the shaft position of the first elevator car taking into account at least one of the following criteria: last detected position data of the first elevator car; last detected driving parameters of the first elevator car; last destination floors of the first elevator car detected; Signal transit times for the provision of elevator car data; last detected error messages.
  • the holding position of the first elevator car can be determined as the shaft position.
  • the last recorded destination floors of the first elevator car are used to determine the shaft position.
  • the last destination floors recorded in this case include in particular the floor of the last stop of the first elevator car and at least the floor that should be approached next by the first elevator car.
  • the area between the fifth floor and the fifth floor will advantageously be Floor and the eighth floor. If, moreover, the most recently available driving parameters are advantageously taken into account when determining the shaft position, then the last known speed can provide information that at least the sixth floor must have been reached starting from the fifth floor, but the eighth floor has not yet been reached , Then, in this case, the shaft position would advantageously be determined from the sixth floor up to and including the seventh floor.
  • the shaft position is determined as a position interval, wherein the limits of the position interval are determined such that the first elevator car is located safely in the specific position interval.
  • the shaft position is then determined as a position interval when the shaft position of the first elevator car can not be unambiguously determined by means of the available information. This advantageously ensures that the first elevator car is not outside the determined shaft position.
  • the quarantine section is determined such that the respective end of the quarantine section is at least one stopping distance away from the determined shaft position. If the shaft position is determined as a position interval, the respective end of the quarantine section is advantageously determined such that it has at least one Stop distance is removed from the determined respective limit of the position interval.
  • the stopping distance is, in particular, the path that a further elevator car, starting from a drive at maximum speed, requires after issuing the command for an emergency stop in order to come to a standstill. Since the stopping distance is different depending on the direction of travel of an elevator car, in particular up, down or laterally, it is provided in particular that the distance of the ends of the quarantine section from the respective limit of the position interval is different.
  • the further elevator cars are moved further in the shaft system outside the quarantine section.
  • the multi-car lift system advantageously remains ready for use. Persons can continue to be transported with the other elevator cars of the elevator system.
  • a further advantageous embodiment of the invention provides that when an elevator car enters the locked quarantine section, an emergency stop of this elevator car is triggered. As a result, the safety of Mehrkabinenetzzugstrom is advantageously further increased.
  • the distance of the first elevator car from the respective end of the quarantine section advantageously corresponds at least to the stopping distance of an elevator car, it is also advantageously ensured that an elevator car entering the quarantine section comes to a halt in front of the first elevator car and thus prevents a collision.
  • the elevator cars are moved by means of a linear motor drive in the shaft system, wherein the locked quarantine section is switched without energy. Because the corresponding linear motor section in the quarantine section is in this case switched to be energy-free, a further elevator car can advantageously also not be moved further within the quarantine section. As a result, a further measure is provided in order to effectively prevent a collision between the first elevator car and a further elevator car of the multi-car elevator system.
  • a further particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention provides that for each elevator car of the multi-car lift system is calculated at which stop position the respective elevator car in the case of a shutdown of the respective elevator car below Taking into account current driving parameters of the respective elevator car stops, wherein at least the respective stop position are provided as data of the elevator cars.
  • the determination and provision of the respective stop position is advantageously part of the safety concept of the multi-car lift system. Such a security concept is described in the document WO 2016/083115 AI.
  • the stop positions are the "stopping points" described in WO 2016/083115 AI
  • the shaft position of the first elevator car can advantageously be determined with high accuracy
  • the stop positions are transmitted in time intervals between ten milliseconds and 300 milliseconds, taking into account the selected transmission interval and the most recently provided stopping points, the shaft position is advantageously determined.
  • the system running time is taken into account, which in a preferred wireless embodiment is advantageously at most 80 milliseconds.
  • the control system of the multi-car elevator system is a decentralized control system, wherein at least each of the elevator cars is assigned a car control unit and the respective car control unit of an elevator car communicates the data of this elevator car at least to the car control units of the immediately adjacent elevator cars.
  • adjacent elevator car of a first elevator car in terms of which the provision of data is omitted, informed immediately about this.
  • Reaction times of the multi-car lift system are thereby advantageously shortened.
  • the shaft position can be determined more precisely, whereby the quarantine section can be determined smaller, which advantageously leads to a smaller limitation of the conveying capacity.
  • the determination of the quarantine section also takes place taking into account the positions of adjacent elevator cars of the first elevator car.
  • defined shaft sections of the shaft system are each assigned a shaft control unit, wherein the respective cabin control unit of an elevator car of the multi-car elevator system communicates the data of this elevator car at least to the shaft control unit of that shaft section in which these Elevator car while communicating the data is located. If data of a first elevator car is not communicated to the shaft control unit of the respective shaft section, ie a lack of provision of data of this elevator car is detected, this shaft section is advantageously blocked. If the elevator cars are moved by means of a linear motor drive, this shaft section is advantageously switched to be energy-free.
  • the lack of provision of the data of the first elevator car is individually recognized by each control unit to which these data are to be communicated.
  • the recognition of the lack of provision of the data of the first elevator car is advantageously communicated to the further control units.
  • the respective detection time of detecting the lack of provision of the data is detected.
  • the shaft position is advantageously determined taking into account the detected detection times.
  • the multi-car lift system also proposed for achieving the abovementioned object comprises a shaft system with at least one elevator shaft, a plurality of elevator cars that can be moved individually in the shaft system, and a control system.
  • the multi-car lift system is advantageously designed to carry out a method described above, in particular also in any desired combination of the proposed embodiments.
  • the control system is preferably a decentralized control system with a plurality of control units, in particular with the above-mentioned cabin control units and shaft control units. Further advantageous details, features and design details of the invention are explained in more detail in connection with the exemplary embodiments illustrated in the figures. Showing: 1 shows in a simplified schematic representation of an embodiment of an inventively designed Mehrkabinenetzzugstrom, which executes an embodiment of an inventively designed method;
  • FIG. 2 shows in a simplified schematic representation a further embodiment of an inventively designed multi-car elevator system, which executes a further embodiment of a method configured according to the invention
  • FIG. 3 shows in a simplified schematic representation a further exemplary embodiment of a multi-car lift system designed according to the invention, which executes a further exemplary embodiment of a method designed according to the invention.
  • the multi-car elevator installation 1 shown in FIG. 1 comprises a shaft system 2 with only one elevator shaft 3.
  • two elevator cars 4, 41 can be moved individually, that is, largely independently of one another.
  • Elevator cabs 4, 41 proceed via cable drives in the elevator shaft 3.
  • other drives can be provided, in particular rack drive, friction drive or linear motor drive.
  • the multi-car lift 1 comprises a control system 5.
  • the control system 5 is formed as a central control system.
  • the multi-car elevator installation 1 shown in FIG. 1 comprises a shaft information system 6, which is designed in particular to detect the current position of the elevator cars 4, 41 and furthermore to determine driving parameters of the elevator cars 4, 41, in particular the speed, the acceleration and / or the jerk of the elevator cars 4, 41.
  • the data of the elevator cars 4, 41 acquired by the shaft information system 6 are thereby provided to the control system 5 at time intervals.
  • the transmission of the data of the elevator cars 4, 41 to the control system 5 takes place in this embodiment at fixed time intervals, for example, in time intervals of ten milliseconds.
  • the specification of the time intervals depends advantageously on the maximum speed of the elevator cars 4, 41, with which this in the elevator shaft 3 of Multi-cabin lift 1 are moved. It is advantageous that the higher the maximum speed of the elevator cars 4, 41, the shorter the time interval is to be determined.
  • the time interval after the data of the elevator cars 4, 41 are respectively provided is preferably not more than 15 milliseconds. If, for example, the maximum speed of the elevator cars 4, 41 is only 6 m / s, the time interval can be dimensioned correspondingly greater and, for example, between 15 milliseconds and 25 milliseconds.
  • the data of the elevator cars 4, 41 provided by the shaft information system 6 of the multi-car elevator installation 1 are detected by the control system 5 in this exemplary embodiment.
  • the communication system or the communication channels for transmitting the data of the elevator cars 4, 41 from the shaft information system 6 to the control system 5 is designed to be redundant. A failure to provide the data of at least one of the elevator cars 4, 41 is advantageously detected in this case only if none of the redundant communication channels data of the corresponding elevator car 4, 41 are provided.
  • the control system 5 determines the shaft position of the elevator car 41.
  • the last of resorted to the slot information system 6 provided position information.
  • the shaft position 7 of the elevator car 41 is determined such that the elevator car 41 reliably located at the specified shaft position.
  • a shaft section is the shaft position 7, so that the shaft position 7 is a position interval with an upper limit 71 and a lower limit 72.
  • the position interval which is defined by the boundaries 71, 72, is greater than the dimensions of the elevator car 41.
  • control system 5 of the multi-car elevator installation 1 determines a quarantine section 8 of the shaft system 2.
  • the quarantine section 8 is determined in such a way that the determined shaft position 7 and therefore in particular also the elevator car 41 are arranged completely within the quarantine section 8.
  • the quarantine section 8 is thereby blocked by the control system 5 for the further elevator car 4 of the multi-car lift system 1, that is to say that the elevator car 4 may not enter the quarantine section 8.
  • floors arranged below the quarantine section 8 can continue to be approached and operated by the elevator car 4.
  • a further method of the elevator car 41 in the quarantine section 8 can be provided, in particular a floor stop within the quarantine section 8, in order to enable passengers located in the elevator car 41 to alight.
  • Such a method up to a next stop is an option in particular if, after expiry of a time interval, data of the elevator car 41 have not been provided via any of the redundantly designed communication channels, but data of the elevator car 41 after at least one of the redundantly formed communication channels after the expiry of the subsequent time interval to be provided.
  • the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 2 shows a multi-car elevator installation 1, which comprises a shaft system 2 with a plurality of vertical and horizontal elevator shafts 3.
  • the multi-car lift 1 also comprises a plurality of individually movable in the shaft system 2 elevator cars 4. It is particularly provided that the elevator cars 4 by means of a linear motor drive (in Fig. 2 not explicitly shown) can be moved in the elevator shafts 3.
  • the multi-car lift 1 is also designed such that the elevator cars 4 of the multi-car lift 1 between the elevator shafts 3 can change.
  • the multi-car lift installation 1 comprises a control system 5.
  • the control system 5 is a decentralized control system, wherein each of the elevator cars 4 is assigned a cabin control unit 51.
  • each of the elevator cars 4 of the multi-car elevator system 1 is calculated, preferably using the respective cabin control unit 51, at which stop position 10 the respective elevator car 4 stops in the case of a shutdown of the respective elevator car 4 taking into account current driving parameters of the respective elevator car 4.
  • the direction of travel 9 as well as the current speed and the current acceleration of the respective elevator car 4 are provided in the exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 2.
  • stop positions 10 are determined as described in the publication WO 2016/083115 AI in relation to the "stopping points" and the stop positions 10 as part of the safety concept of the multi-car elevator installation 1, as likewise in the document WO 2016 /. 083115 AI described to be used.
  • the stop positions 10 determined with respect to each of the elevator cars 4 of the multi-car elevator installation 1 are provided as data of the elevator cars 4.
  • the stop positions 10 are each sent from a car control unit 51 of an elevator car 4 to the car control units 51 of the immediately adjacent elevator cars 4 and thus provided.
  • Immediately adjacent elevator cars 4 are consecutive and preceding elevator cars, between which no further elevator car moves. That is, in this embodiment, a car control unit 51 always transmits the stop positions 10 to at least two other car control units 51.
  • an elevator car 4 of the multi-car elevator installation 1 is located in an area in the vicinity of the shaft changing units, provision is made in particular for the cabin control unit 51 to transmit the respective stop position 10 to more than two further cabin control units 51, since in this case it is not absolutely necessary to have a single one subsequent elevator car or a single preceding elevator car there.
  • the affected elevator car 4 is shut down and its shaft position 7 in the shaft system 2 determined.
  • the determination of the shaft position 7 of the elevator car 4 takes place here by means of the last with respect to this elevator car 4 detected stop position 10 taking into account the predetermined time interval to provide the stop position 10 and advantageously taking into account system running times, especially taking into account maturities for the transmission of the stop position 10 of a Cabin control unit 51 to another cabin control unit 51.
  • the stop positions 10 of the elevator cars 4 are transmitted wirelessly, in particular by means of WLAN (WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network), the maximum transit time for data transmission to 80 milliseconds is set.
  • WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
  • the position interval describing the shaft position 7 is advantageously not or only slightly larger than the dimensions of an elevator car 4 of the multi-car lift system 1.
  • the quarantine sections 81, 82 are also determined in such a way that the respective end of the respective quarantine section 81, 82 is more than a stopping path of a further elevator car 4 of the multi-car elevator installation 1 away from the determined shaft position 7.
  • the quarantine sections 81, 82 are thereby blocked for the further elevator cars 4 of the multi-car lift system 1, that is to say the other elevator cars 4 of the multi-car elevator system 1 are not allowed to enter the specific quarantine sections 81, 82.
  • This is achieved in this embodiment in that, for the quarantine sections 81, 82, the responsible part of the linear motor drive of the multi-car lift 1 is switched to be energy-free.
  • Fig. 3 a further embodiment of a multi-car lift 1 is shown.
  • the multi-car elevator installation 1 comprises a shaft system 2 with three elevator shafts 31, 32, 33.
  • the multi-car elevator installation 1 furthermore comprises a plurality of individually movable elevator cars 4.
  • the elevator cars 4 of the multi-car elevator system 1 move within the shaft system 2 by means of a linear motor drive become.
  • the multi-car lift 1 comprises a decentralized control system, wherein the elevator cars 4 each have a car control unit 51.
  • defined well portions 311 to 333 are each assigned a well control unit 511 to 533, namely, the well control unit 511 to the well portion 311, the well control unit 512 to the well portion 312, and so on.
  • data of the elevator cars 4 are provided at predetermined time intervals.
  • Data of an elevator car 4 of the multi-car elevator 1 are in particular driving parameters of the respective elevator car 4, such as speed and acceleration and position data of the respective elevator car 4.
  • These driving parameters and position data of an elevator car 4 are recorded as data from their respective car control unit 51 and to further control units of the decentralized control system Posted.
  • the transmission of the data from the respective cabin control units 51 takes place wirelessly in this exemplary embodiment, in particular by means of a radio link, which is represented in FIG. 3 by symbolized radio waves.
  • the data of a cabin control unit 51 are sent in this embodiment to the cabin control units 51 adjacent elevator cars, in particular to cabin control units 51 of an elevator car 4 immediately following elevator car and the elevator car 4 immediately preceding elevator car.
  • the data of a car control unit 51 is also transmitted to the respective manhole control unit of the manhole section in which the respective elevator car 4 is located at the time of communicating the data of the elevator car 4.
  • the elevator car 43 transmits the data to the immediately preceding and immediately following elevator cars 4, 41 as well as to the shaft control unit 522 of the shaft section 322 and to the shaft control unit 512 of the shaft section 312.
  • the process of the elevator cars 4 of the multi-car elevator 1 in the shaft system 2 is controlled.
  • an assignment of elevator cars 4 to calls made by users is undertaken, in particular an assignment of elevator cars to destination calls issued by users.
  • these data are advantageously used to ensure safe operation of the elevator cars 4 within the shaft system 2.
  • the data is used in particular to comply with safety distances between elevator cabins 4 of the elevator system.
  • a confirmation signal from the control units 51, 511 to 533 is sent when they have received data from the other control units 51, 511 to 533.
  • the data sent by a control unit 51 has actually also been received by at least one of the adjacent control units 51, 511 to 533.
  • the likely shaft position 7 of the elevator car 41 is determined by the control system as a position interval, wherein the limits 71, 72 of the position interval are determined such that the stopped elevator car 41 is located safely within the specific shaft position 7.
  • the upper limit 71 of the position interval is farther from the elevator car 41 than the lower limit 72 the position interval.
  • the failure to provide the data of the first elevator car 41 is individually recognized by each control unit 51, 511 to 533 to which this data is to be communicated. Thereupon, the failure to provide the data of the first elevator car 41 to the further control units 51, 511 to 533, in particular, to the other car control units 51 of adjacent elevator cars 4, 43 and the shaft control units 511, 512 is communicated from the car control unit 51 thereof.
  • the respective resulting detection time of the control units 51, 511 to 533 for detecting the absence of provision of the data is detected and the probable shaft position 7 is determined with further consideration of the detected detection times. Instead of determining the detection times, a maximum detection time that can occur under the most unfavorable conditions can be specified, in particular a detection time of 80 milliseconds.
  • the control system determines a quarantine section 8 of the shaft system 2 in which the first elevator car 41 is located.
  • the quarantine section 8 goes beyond the limits 71, 72 of the position interval.
  • the quarantine section 8 of the shaft system 2 is locked.
  • the other elevator cars 4, 42 of the multi-car elevator installation 1 are moved further in the shaft system 2 outside the quarantine section 8. If an elevator car 43 of the multi-car lift 1 is moved such that this elevator car 43 is one of the Control system predetermined safety distance to the quarantine section 8 falls below or even enters the quarantine section 8, then an emergency stop this elevator car 43 is triggered immediately by the control system.

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La présente invention concerne un procédé de fonctionnement une installation d'ascenseur à plusieurs cabines (1) qui comprend un système de cage (2) comprenant au moins une cage d'ascenseur (3), une pluralité de cabines d'ascenseur (4) pouvant être déplacées individuellement dans le système de cage (2) et un système de commande (5), des données de cabines d'ascenseur (4) étant fournies à des intervalles de temps. En l'absence de données d'une première cabine d'ascenseur (41) de l'installation d'ascenseur à plusieurs cabines (1), on détermine la position (7) de cette première cabine d'ascenseur (41) dans la cage, on détermine une section de quarantaine (8) du système de cages (2) dans laquelle la première cabine d'ascenseur (41) est localisée au moyen de la position (7) déterminée dans la cage, et on bloque (81, 82) la section de quarantaine (8) déterminée pour les autres cabines d'ascenseur (4) de l'installation d'ascenseur à plusieurs cabines (1). En outre, l'invention concerne une installation d'ascenseur à plusieurs cabines (1) conçue pour mettre en œuvre un tel procédé.
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