ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,036, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Failure detection device for an elevator" was invented by Jumpei Yoshino (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A failure detection device for an elevator is provided. The failure detection device includes: a mobile unit that is movable in a hoistway in an up-down direction independently of a car; a distance measurement unit that is mounted to the mobile unit and is configured to measure a horizontal distance; and a control unit including: a movement amount calculator; a car height position acquirer; a reference value storage; a measurement value acquirer; an...