B66B 7/00
Elevators: other common features of elevators
Official title: Other common features of elevators
B66B7/00 (Elevators: other common features of elevators) appears on 1,316 US grants and 1,457 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66B- Granted patents
- 1,316
- Published applications
- 1,457
- Assignees
- 257
- Inventors
- 1,993
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 69 | 44 |
| 2025 | 58 | 43 |
| 2026 | 40 | 45 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Autonomous elevator car mover configured with guide wheels6 Oct 2026US 12,753,046 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Elevator suspension member monitoring29 Sep 2026US 12,747,135 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Rope terminal, elevator and method for installing elevator suspension rope22 Sep 2026US 12,741,847 B2Kone Corporation
- Elongation based monitoring of tension members22 Sep 2026US 12,741,848 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Fire-resistant synthetic tension members15 Sep 2026US 12,735,299 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Compact bag filling machine and method of use8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307833 A1Sandbags, LLC
- Guide rail segment and guide rail arrangement for an elevator system, and corresponding production method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307941 A1Inventio AG
- Elevator guide rail clamp and method of use8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307942 A1Wurtec, Incorporated
- Elevator Traction Media Monitoring1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296833 A1Inventio AG
- Device and method for installing and adjusting pressure of roller guide, and elevator system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285643 A1Otis Elevator Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multi-degree of freedom magnetorheological devices and system for using same133US 5,492,312 ALord Corporation · 1996
- Wireless energy transfer to moving devices88US 8,384,247 B2Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. · 2013
- Cable as suspension means for lifts56US 5,566,786 AInventio AG · 1996
- Vertical-horizontal passenger conveying system52US 5,433,293 AInventio AG · 1995
- Cable sway reduction device49US 6,234,277 B1Draka Elevator Products, Inc. · 2001