ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,442, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Ming-Chu Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Method for inspecting twist of wire ropes" was invented by Ming-Chu Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ting-Chun Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inspecting twist of wire ropes is provided. The wire ropes support an elevator car, and each of the wire ropes includes a plurality of strands. The method is to be implemented by a processor and includes steps of: obtaining, for each of the wire ropes during movement of the elevator car, a number of strand segments that are present within a predetermined length of the wire rope; and comparing the...