US Patent Issued to Wittur Holding on Feb. 25 for "Triggering unit for actuating an elevator braking device" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,125, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Wittur Holding GmbH (Wiedenzhausen, Germany).

"Triggering unit for actuating an elevator braking device" was invented by Lukas Schwaigerlehner (Scheibbs, Austria), Christoph Russwurm (Ober-Grafendorf, Austria), Rene Holzer (Scheibbs, Austria), Leopold Latschbacher (Neustadtl a.d. Donau, Austria) and Karl Kriener (Viehdorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A triggering unit for actuating an elevator braking device, having a triggering base body, a trigger, a contact device and a coupling link. The contact device comprises a swivel lever and at least two contact elements, the swivel lever b...