B66B 29/08
Means to facilitate passenger entry or exit
Official title: Means to facilitate passenger entry or exit (moving handrails B66B23/24)
B66B29/08 (Means to facilitate passenger entry or exit) appears on 29 US grants and 19 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66B- Granted patents
- 29
- Published applications
- 19
- Assignees
- 22
- Inventors
- 83
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Automatic conveyor device11 Aug 2026US 12,703,608 B2Otis Elevator Company
- People-transporting system having a guide means in the entry regions26 Aug 2025US 12,398,020 B2Inventio AG
- People mover19 Nov 2024US 12,145,821 B2Kone Corporation
- Method for entering mobile robot into moving walkway and mobile robot thereof8 Mar 2022US 11,269,328 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Method and system for ensuring social distancing on an escalator or travellator7 Dec 2021US 11,192,757 B2Techdayafter Inc.
- Automatic conveyor device20 Feb 2025US 2025/0059003 A1Otis Elevator Company
- Escalator entrapment detection system6 Feb 2025US 2025/0042699 A1Otis Elevator Company
- Horizontal revolving gate12 Dec 2024US 2024/0409373 A1Universal City Studios LLC
- People-transporting system having a guide means in the entry regions15 Aug 2024US 2024/0270540 A1Inventio AG
- People mover23 Mar 2023US 2023/0087024 A1Kone Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Moving walkway47US 5,044,485 ALoderway Pty. Limited · 1991
- Conveyor belt for persons45US 5,971,129 AInventio AG · 1999
- Band transportation system29US 5,558,198 A1996
- Traveling vehicle and method of controlling the traveling vehicle20US 10,266,097 B2The University of Tokyo · 2019
- Transfer device for transferring pedestrians between two sequential moving surfaces10US 5,908,104 AConstructions Industrielles de la Mediterrane--CNIM · 1999