This elevator car includes: a car frame having a pair of vertical frames and a lower frame linking lower ends of the pair of vertical frames; a floor support beam supporting a car floor and supported on the lower frame; an under-car pulley disposed below the car floor; a pulley support member fixed to the floor support beam and rotatably supporting the under-car pulley; and a linking member linking the vertical frames and the floor support beam. The elevator car has a structure in which an upward force exerted on the pulley support member and the floor support beam by a main rope that is wound around the under-car pulley is received by the linking member and the vertical frames.

An elevator includes: an elevator carriage that moves up and down; a partition that divides a space within the elevator carriage into a first elevator space for a person to board and a second elevator space for an unmanned transport vehicle to board; an elevator rail that includes a movable rail and is arranged in the second elevator space; and an actuator that moves the movable rail. The unmanned transport vehicle travels along the elevator rail, and the movable rail is switched between a first rail state and a second rail state by actuation of an actuator. In the first rail state, the first end of the movable rail is connected to the second end of the story rail, and in the second rail state, the first end is not connected to the second end.

Techniques are described for an elevator apparatus that includes a cabin apparatus and a hoistway apparatus. In an embodiment, the cabin head apparatus of the cabin apparatus extends parallel to a cross-section of the hoistway apparatus. The air pressure in the part of the hoistway is maintained to be different from the air pressure inside the cabin apparatus and may cause the cabin apparatus to ascend or to stay steady within the hoistway apparatus. The cabin head apparatus is partially load-bearing for the cabin apparatus and any load. In an embodiment, the air pressure difference is maintained by seal(s) that are peripherally coupled to the cabin apparatus, generating an airtight connection of the cabin apparatus with an inner periphery of a cross section of the hoistway apparatus. The seals substantially prevent the air in the top portion of the hoistway apparatus from entering the bottom portion and vice versa.

This elevator car includes: a car frame having a pair of vertical frames and a lower frame linking lower ends of the pair of vertical frames; a floor support beam supporting a car floor and supported on the lower frame; an under-car pulley disposed below the car floor; a pulley support member fixed to the floor support beam and rotatably supporting the under-car pulley; and a linking member linking the vertical frames and the floor support beam. The elevator car has a structure in which an upward force exerted on the pulley support member and the floor support beam by a main rope that is wound around the under-car pulley is received by the linking member and the vertical frames.