US Patent Issued to FUJITEC on Sept. 29 for "Car of elevator, and elevator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,137, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FUJITEC Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).

"Car of elevator, and elevator" was invented by Hiroshi Kashiwakura (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a car of an elevator, and an elevator that achieve weight reduction for a support frame. The support frame includes brackets at multiple locations on an upper edge, and supports a first pulley, a second pulley, and a door position detection part via the brackets. This eliminates the need to secure an area on a front face of the support frame for arranging the first pulley, the second pulley, and the door position detection part. Therefo...