The disclosure defined by this invention relates to an electronic control facility for a stairlift. The control facility includes an installation mode in which a number of steps to be undertaken at the time of installation of the stairlift are defined. The control facility also includes a user mode in which the operation of the stairlift is controlled by a user. According to the invention, the control facility is configured so that the user mode cannot be entered until all steps in the installation mode have been completed.

A means and method to ensure the correct installation of a stairlift is provided. An electronic control facility within the stairlift includes an installation mode and a user mode, the installation mode prescribing a number of installation steps that must be undertaken correctly before the user mode can be entered.

Car doors hanging down via door hangers are disposed on a door rail that is disposed on a vertically-oriented frame disposed above an entrance of a car and extends along a width direction of the entrance of the car. One of a magnetic proximity switch and a target for detecting that the car doors are fully open and fully closed is disposed on a horizontal part extending from an upper end of the frame toward the entrance of the car. The remaining one of the magnetic proximity switch and the target is disposed on an extending part extending from each of the door hangers so as to be opposed in a vertical direction to the one of the magnetic proximity switch and the target for detection.

There is provided a method for controlling a motor in an elevator system. In this method, a time duration to a time-point at which a car stops is determined using an actual speed of the motor and a predetermined travel distance. Then, a leveling error is adjusted based on the determined time duration.

An apparatus and method for controlling operation of screenless elevator is provided. An apparatus for controlling operations of a screenless elevator includes: a display unit that displays a first image including a dial-shaped image; a hologram projection unit that displays a second image in the air, projecting the first image; a motion recognition unit that emits light to the second image and receives light reflected by a hand gesture of a user from the second image to recognize hand gesture of the user; and an operation control unit that controls operations of the elevator according to hand gesture of the user.

Car doors hanging down via door hangers are disposed on a door rail that is disposed on a vertically-oriented frame disposed above an entrance of a car and extends along a width direction of the entrance of the car. One of a magnetic proximity switch and a target for detecting that the car doors are fully open and fully closed is disposed on a horizontal part extending from an upper end of the frame toward the entrance of the car. The remaining one of the magnetic proximity switch and the target is disposed on an extending part extending from each of the door hangers so as to be opposed in a vertical direction to the one of the magnetic proximity switch and the target for detection.

A safety system (105) for an elevator system (100). The safety system (105) includes a plurality of sensors (120) and a controller (110). Each of the plurality of sensors (120) is configured to produce an override signal when a landing door (112a) to which the sensor is connected is opened by manual override. The controller (110) is configured to instruct the elevator system (100) to automatically enter a special operating mode when the override signal is received from one of the plurality of sensors (120).

An elevator safety control device includes an interface unit that receives a first status signal of a first safety switch, a second status signal of a second safety switch, and a third status signal of a non-safety function unit of an elevator, the second safety switch including a plurality of landing door switches whose status can be determined individually; a safety controller that performs: determining an occurrence of an abnormal event based on the first status signal, the second status signal and the third status signal; determining, after determining the occurrence of the abnormal event, a possibility of a target landing door based on the second status signal; and executing a rescue mode after determining an existence of the possibility, wherein in the rescue mode, the car is caused to travel by gravity and stop at the target landing door by controlling a state of a holding brake device.