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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B 7/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B66B 7/08 ;
Abstract
An elevator including a cage for accommodating passengers configured to move up and down in a shaft along a guide rail, a support base attached to a lower portion of the cage, a plurality of car sheaves rotatably secured to the support base through respective axles, a cable placed around the car sheaves and configured to suspend the cage, and at least one damper coupled to the cage and configured to attenuate vibration transferred from the cable to the cage.