An elevator and a method for testing an operating condition of two or more elevator car brakes are provided, each of the car brakes including an actuator to control the car brake and each of the car brakes mounted to elevator car and fitted to selectively engage against a guide rail of an elevator car to stop movement of an elevator car or to open to enable movement of an elevator car. The method includes an empty car is kept at a standstill by providing a driving force upwards with all the N movers mounted to the elevator car, and total current Lot of all N movers is determined. One of the car brakes is applied while the others are kept open. The driving current of each of the movers is gradually decreased, and movement of elevator car is observed. When movement of elevator car is detected, the driving current at the moment movement started is recorded, and the recorded current is compared to a reference value, and if the recorded current is higher than the reference value, safety measures with the elevator are performed.

An electric wheel hub, comprising a wheel hub (1) and an inner ring gear (2). The inner ring gear and the wheel hub are fixed coaxially and rotate synchronously. A drive motor is provided within an inner cavity of the wheel hub. A motor shaft of the drive motor has one end fitting to the inner ring gear via a planetary reduction mechanism, and the other end provided with an electromagnetic braking mechanism. The wheel hub of the present invention has advantages of reducing the weight of a drive wheel, lowering manufacturing costs, etc. Also disclosed is a drive wheel.

A compact, high torque actuator includes a brushless motor, motor control electronics, an inner hollow tube to transmit rotation of an output plate to the input end of the actuator, thus allowing two absolute magnetic encoders to read an absolute position of the input and output of the actuator. The actuator is sealed to operate in fluid environment at high pressures.

A fan braking structure includes a fan including a frame having an upright bearing cup, and a fan impeller having a vertical rotating shaft pivotally received in the bearing cup and provided at a free end with a groove; a braking structure located at a lower part of the bearing cup and including a brake plate and an electromagnet, and the brake plate being provided at one side with a protruded brake pin and at another side with a magnetic member; and an elastic element disposed between and pressed against a top of the shell and the brake plate. When the fan is inactive, the electromagnet is energized to produce magnetic poles that repel the magnetic member and compress the elastic element, such that the brake pin is magnetically pushed toward the rotating shaft to engage with the groove, causing the fan to brake and stop rotating inertially.

An electric actuator comprises a housing and an output shaft reciprocatingly received by the housing. There is a screw assembly disposed within the housing and coupled to the output shaft. The screw assembly includes a plurality of annular rollers and a central screw received by the annular rollers. The annular rollers are rotatable about the central screw. There is a motor which includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor has an inner bore which engages the annular rollers. Rotation of the rotor causes the central screw to translate axially relative to the rotor and the output shaft to reciprocate relative to the housing.

A rotating body is rotatably supported on a holding section. The holding section includes a rotation detection unit, a torque-applying unit, and a brake-applying unit. The torque-applying unit includes an A-phase torque-applying coil and a B-phase torque-applying coil, and a resistance torque and a pull-in torque applied to a rotor (magnet) are caused to vary as a result of controlling supply of current to each of the coils. In addition, a braking force can be controlled by supplying current to a brake-applying coil included in the brake-applying unit.

In an operating device, a brake setting unit sets a target braking torque based on a braking torque pattern, and a rotational torque setting unit sets a target rotational torque based on a rotational torque pattern in accordance with information detected by a rotation detecting portion at reference time intervals. A control unit includes a time change adjustment unit. For at least one of the braking torque and the rotational torque, the time change adjustment unit changes the braking torque so that a current braking torque reaches the target braking torque and/or changes the rotational torque so that a current rotational torque reaches the target rotational torque in a predetermined time period greater than the reference time interval.

An arrangement of a magnet-based rotational angle measuring system on a drive motor housing part. The arrangement includes the drive motor housing part, a drive shaft with a free end which extends out of the drive motor housing part, an exciter unit connected to the free end of the drive shaft to rotate therewith, a stationary sensor unit which cooperates with the exciter unit to detect a rotary movement of the drive shaft, a shielding body arranged between the stationary sensor unit and the drive motor housing part, and an alignment element which directly aligns the stationary sensor unit with respect to the drive motor housing part.

A brake for a rotary electric machine including a rotor having a shaft, the brake including: at least one fixed armature; at least one yoke that can be moved between a position of braking the shaft of the machine and a position in which the shaft rotates freely; at least one coil borne by the yoke; at least one brake disc borne by the shaft of the rotor; at least one elastic return system for applying the yoke against the brake disc in the absence of electrical excitation of the coil, the armature being positioned such that the excitation of the coil causes the yoke to approach the armature and distances the yoke from the brake disc.

A motor-specific electromagnetic braking device includes: a housing configured to rotatably house a rotating shaft portion of a motor; a hub attached to an outer perimeter of the rotating shaft portion; and a friction member configured to be rotatable together with the hub and movable in a direction of a rotation axis, and the friction member includes: a plate-shaped portion; and a friction portion provided to an outer-diameter portion of the plate-shaped portion, the hub is provided, on both sides in the direction of the rotation axis, with a pair of holding plates covering at least a part of the friction member, and inner-diameter portions of the pair of holding plates are fixed to the hub.