B66B 1/18
With means for storing pulses controlling the movements of several cars or
Official title: with means for storing pulses controlling the movements of several cars or cages {(B66B1/2458 takes precedence)}
B66B1/18 (With means for storing pulses controlling the movements of several cars or) appears on 165 US grants and 75 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66B- Granted patents
- 165
- Published applications
- 75
- Assignees
- 26
- Inventors
- 226
- Latest grant
- 23 Jun 2026
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| 2003 | 4 | 6 |
| 2004 | 2 | 8 |
| 2005 | 8 | 7 |
| 2006 | 6 | 6 |
| 2007 | 2 | 8 |
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| 2010 | 5 | 0 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 4 | 2 |
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| 2016 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2018 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 6 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Elevator car space allocation based on detecting voices of potential passengers23 Jun 2026US 12,662,353 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Control device for passenger traffic system14 Oct 2025US 12,441,581 B2Kone Corporation
- Super group architecture with advanced building wide dispatching logic—distributed group architecture10 Sep 2024US 12,084,308 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Elevator operation managing device and elevator operation managing method that allocates a user to a car based on boarding and destination floors5 Dec 2023US 11,834,295 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Elevator floor bypass15 Aug 2023US 11,724,907 B2Otis Elevator Company
- 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
- Elevator and Control Method for the Same7 Dec 2023US 2023/0391583 A1Hitachi, Ltd.
- Solution for controlling passenger flow23 Mar 2023US 2023/0088242 A1Kone Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Elevator management system time based security93US 5,159,163 AOtis Elevator Company · 1992
- 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
- Group-control method and apparatus for an elevator system with plural cages49US 4,947,965 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1990
- Selectable notification time indicating elevator car arrival46US 5,271,484 AOtis Elevator Company · 1993
- Control device for elevator41US 7,581,622 B2Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 2009