ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,330, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Elevator car and elevator" was invented by Yoshiki Tomura (Tokyo) and Tomoki Kariya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This elevator car includes: a car frame having a pair of vertical frames and a lower frame linking lower ends of the pair of vertical frames; a floor support beam supporting a car floor and supported on the lower frame; an under-car pulley disposed below the car floor; a pulley support member fixed to the floor support beam and rotatably supporting the under-car pulley; and a linking member linking the vertical frames and the floor support beam. The el...