US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 23 for "Wireless power supply system for elevators and elevator system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,077, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wireless power supply system for elevators and elevator system" was invented by Mariko Nakagawa (Tokyo), Tomokazu Sakashita (Tokyo), Miyuki Takeshita (Tokyo), Hidehito Yoshida (Tokyo), Hirohisa Kuwano (Tokyo) and Takuya Miura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless power supply system for elevators includes a power transmitting device, first and second power receiving devices provided in the first and second elevator cars respectively, and a control device. The power transmitting device includes power transmitting units each having an inverter and ...