US Patent Issued to HITACHI on July 1 for "Elevator passenger car and elevator having same car" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,506, issued on July 1, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Elevator passenger car and elevator having same car" was invented by Tomoki Kariya (Tokyo), Katsuhiro Shimada (Tokyo), Hiroshi Kawakami (Tokyo), Yoshiki Tomura (Tokyo) and Mari Osuga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elevator passenger car allows enhancement of rigidity of a lower beam with a simple configuration while suppressing an increase in the number of components, and includes an upper beam disposed at an upper side, a pair of vertical frames having upper ends connected to both ends of the upper beam, a lower beam disposed between lower ends of the pair of ver...