ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,266, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Otis Elevator Co. (Farmington, Conn.).
"Frictionless safety brake actuator" was invented by Manuel Garcia Canales (Madrid).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frictionless safety brake actuator for use in an elevator system, including a triggering component moveable between a first position and a second position; a reset component movable between a normal operation position and a reset position; a biasing arrangement arranged to apply a biasing force (FB) to the triggering component to bias the triggering component away from the reset component towards the first position; wherein one of the trigg...