US Patent Issued to KONE on Oct. 27 for "Elevator disc brake assembly" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,187, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).

"Elevator disc brake assembly" was invented by Henri Wenlin (Helsinki), Antti Saarelainen (Helsinki), Petri Alkula (Helsinki), Lasse Hurri (Helsinki), Andrej Burakov (Helsinki) and Joni Lappalainen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator disc brake assembly includes at least two separate operating disc brake units mounted substantially sequentially on the periphery of the brake disc of an elevator driving machinery where the brake disc and a traction sheave are rotated by a drive motor of the driving machinery. At least one of the disc brake units includes tw...