Patent 9193563 was granted and assigned to Inventio on November, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A floor position detection device of an elevator system includes a first sensor unit having a first Hall sensor and which is provided to detect at least one floor position characteristic, and an evaluation unit which is provided to evaluate the floor position characteristic for generating a floor signal. The sensor unit includes a second Hall sensor and the evaluation unit evaluates at least two floor position characteristics for generating the floor signal.