ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,585, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KONE Corp. (Helsinki).
"Elevator system with method of position detection of a car" was invented by Henri Wenlin (Helsinki), Juha Panula (Helsinki), Oskari Perala (Helsinki), Niko Forsstrom (Helsinki), Sami Janhunen (Helsinki), Juha-Matti Aitamurto (Helsinki) and Tarvo Viita-aho (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rope pulley of an elevator system is a free rotating pulley around which a hoisting rope of the elevator system can be guided. The free pulley is to be mounted to a car sling of an elevator car. The pulley includes an encoder for measuring the rotation movement of the pulley. T...