US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Jan. 13 for "Vibration damping device for elevator rope and elevator apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,471, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vibration damping device for elevator rope and elevator apparatus" was invented by Daisuke Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Eiichi Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vibration damping device for an elevator rope includes: an actuator, which is placed in a hoistway, and is configured to generate a forced displacement in response to a drive input and apply a force generated by the forced displacement to an elevator rope; a lateral vibration measuring unit configured to measure a lateral vibration generated in the elevator rope and output the measured lateral v...