US 11,702,315 B2
Emergency monitoring systems for elevators
Nicolas Beaubois, Chatillon sur Loire (FR)
Assigned to OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, Farmington, CT (US)
Filed by Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT (US)
Filed on Nov. 6, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/181,532.
Claims priority of application No. 17306540 (EP), filed on Nov. 8, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0135581 A1, May 9, 2019
Int. Cl. B66B 3/00 (2006.01); B66B 1/34 (2006.01); B66B 5/00 (2006.01); B66B 5/02 (2006.01)
CPC B66B 3/002 (2013.01) [B66B 1/3407 (2013.01); B66B 3/00 (2013.01); B66B 5/0018 (2013.01); B66B 5/024 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An elevator system comprising:
an elevator car located within an elevator shaft having a plurality of landings along the elevator shaft;
a display located within the elevator car; and
elevator emergency monitoring system having:
an elevator shaft monitoring device mounted on the elevator car and configured to capture an image of the elevator shaft; and
a plurality of landing monitoring devices, wherein at least one landing monitoring device is located at each landing of the elevator shaft and configured to capture an image of the respective landing,
wherein the elevator car is operable in an emergency mode of operation such that an image captured by the elevator shaft monitoring device is displayed on the display within the elevator car and an image captured by at least one landing monitoring device located at a respective landing is displayed on the display within the elevator car.