Patent ID: 9714157
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: B66B

Claim:
1. A damping unit for an elevator, for the reduction of vertical oscillations of an elevator car during a standstill thereof, comprising: brake shoe retainers provided with brake shoes, that lie opposite one another, and which can be moved between a resting position and an active position by an actuator, wherein the brake shoes can move, in the resting position during travel by the car, along a guide rail out of contact therewith, and during a standstill of the car can be pressed against the guide rail in the active position; the brake shoe retainers being connected to the actuator by a gear mechanism; and wherein the gear mechanism has a central drive gearwheel adjoined to a drive shaft of a motor included in the actuator, and one eccentric gearwheel allocated to each of the brake shoes and having a functional connection to the drive gearwheel.