US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on June 30 for "Elevator device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,454, issued on June 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Elevator device" was invented by Takuo Kugiya (Tokyo), Masayuki Kakio (Tokyo), Eiji Yokoyama (Tokyo) and Hidetaka Ishiguro (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator device includes: a car which travels through a hoistway; a code tape suspended in the hoistway; a code read sensor which reads a code described in the code tape; a code tape elongation/contraction detection unit which detects an amount of elongation or contraction of the code tape; a reference marker which is installed in the hoistway and which indicates a reference position of the car; a ...