B66B 1/14
With devices
Official title: with devices, e.g. push-buttons, for indirect control of movements
B66B1/14 (With devices) appears on 217 US grants and 135 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66B- Granted patents
- 217
- Published applications
- 135
- Assignees
- 50
- Inventors
- 350
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 6 | 0 |
| 1978 | 10 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981 | 9 | 0 |
| 1982 | 8 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 7 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 5 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 5 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 9 | 0 |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 0 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
| 2003 | 4 | 6 |
| 2004 | 2 | 9 |
| 2005 | 8 | 7 |
| 2006 | 7 | 6 |
| 2007 | 2 | 8 |
| 2008 | 6 | 5 |
| 2009 | 8 | 4 |
| 2010 | 5 | 0 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5 |
| 2012 | 4 | 2 |
| 2013 | 4 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 | 8 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 5 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 1 | 14 |
| 2020 | 2 | 10 |
| 2021 | 0 | 6 |
| 2022 | 5 | 12 |
| 2023 | 7 | 11 |
| 2024 | 4 | 3 |
| 2025 | 6 | 2 |
| 2026 | 6 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Freestanding Kojo helipad for VTOL flying cars11 Aug 2026US 12,703,981 B2
- Elevator car space allocation based on detecting voices of potential passengers23 Jun 2026US 12,662,353 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Automatically controlled door assembly as an elevator level door of an elevator system16 Jun 2026US 12,654,992 B2Inventio AG
- Operation systems and methods for hoist elevators17 Mar 2026US 12,577,081 B2Designed Access LLC
- Autonomous driving vehicle operation system10 Feb 2026US 12,547,185 B2Robo-Hi Corporation
- Autonomous driving vehicle operation system14 May 2026US 2026/0133589 A1Robo-Hi Corporation
- Method and system for controlling elevator for robot passengers26 Feb 2026US 2026/0054959 A1Naver Corporation
- Control device for passenger traffic system15 Jan 2026US 2026/0015201 A1Kone Corporation
- System and method of operating an elevator system to select an elevator car of a bank of elevator cars from an elevator health and usage state and a travel time to respond to a service request23 Oct 2025US 2025/0326606 A1Otis Elevator Company
- Elevator system and elevator car assignment method24 Apr 2025US 2025/0128910 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Elevator management system time based security93US 5,159,163 AOtis Elevator Company · 1992
- Elevator controller88US 4,979,593 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1990
- Apparatus and methods for detecting number of people waiting in an elevator hall using plural image processing means with overlapping fields of view69US 5,298,697 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1994
- Remotely controlled elevator operating apparatus58US 6,986,408 B2Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 2006
- Group-control method and apparatus for an elevator system with plural cages49US 4,947,965 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1990