Method for adjusting an elevator door

US5587566A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Michael Barten · Berlin, DE
• Mustapha Toutaoui · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 29, 1994
• Grant date: Dec 24, 1996
• Expiry date: Apr 29, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/45242
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for adjusting an elevator door includes the steps of selecting an elevator door adjustment task from a task list which is provided by an elevator door controller. The elevator door controller is adapted to control the phase, voltage and torque of an elevator door motor. The controller is provided with an elevator door adjustment program which is adapted to provide a set of program prompts to a service person who inputs elevator door parameters in response to the set of program prompts. The parameters are then stored in a memory accessible to said elevator door controller the elevator door in thereafter controlled in accordance with the inputted parameters.