Patents by Inventor Masaya Kitazawa

Masaya Kitazawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11530565
    Abstract: An elevator car door apparatus includes a door frame, a door motor, a motor pulley, a reduction pulley, a first driving pulley, a second driving pulley, a reduction belt, and a driving belt. The door motor, the reduction pulley, and the first driving pulley are supported on the door frame by means of a unit supporting member. The unit supporting member includes a flat plate portion that is placed on a frame vertical surface of the door frame. The reduction pulley and the first driving pulley are rotatable around a fixed shaft that is fixed so as to be perpendicular to the flat plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Morinaga, Masaya Kitazawa
  • Publication number: 20200362613
    Abstract: An elevator car door apparatus includes a door frame, a door motor, a motor pulley, a reduction pulley, a first driving pulley, a second driving pulley, a reduction belt, and a driving belt. The door motor, the reduction pulley, and the first driving pulley are supported on the door frame by means of a unit supporting member. The unit supporting member includes a flat plate portion that is placed on a frame vertical surface of the door frame. The reduction pulley and the first driving pulley are rotatable around a fixed shaft that is fixed so as to be perpendicular to the flat plate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo MORINAGA, Masaya KITAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10207900
    Abstract: In an elevator car door apparatus, a locking member is disposed on a blade-carrying car door, and is displaceable between an unlocked position and a locked position interdependently with movement of a doorstop-side blade. A guiding portion is disposed on the locking member. A guiding cam is disposed outside the blade-carrying car door. When the car is positioned outside an appropriate floor alignment position, the blade-carrying car door moves in an opening direction, the guiding portion moves along the guiding cam, the locking member displaces to the locked position, and the doorstop-side blade also displaces to a locking accommodating position, the locking member catches in a fixed latch, and movement of the blade-carrying car door in the opening direction is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaya Kitazawa
  • Publication number: 20170217732
    Abstract: In an elevator car door apparatus, a locking member is disposed on a blade-carrying car door, and is displaceable between an unlocked position and a locked position interdependently with movement of a doorstop-side blade. A guiding portion is disposed on the locking member. A guiding cam is disposed outside the blade-carrying car door. When the car is positioned outside an appropriate floor alignment position, the blade-carrying car door moves in an opening direction, the guiding portion moves along the guiding cam, the locking member displaces to the locked position, and the doorstop-side blade also displaces to a locking accommodating position, the locking member catches in a fixed latch, and movement of the blade-carrying car door in the opening direction is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaya KITAZAWA
  • Patent number: 9656835
    Abstract: In an elevator car door locking apparatus, a doorstop-side blade is disposed on a car door by a linking mechanism, and is displaceable horizontally between a locked position, and an unlocked position that is further away from a door pocket than the locked position. A balance weight is disposed on an opposite side of the pivoting shaft of the link from the doorstop-side blade. The doorstop-side blade comes into contact with a landing door engaging member and displaces, and the balance weight also displaces away from the doorstop-side blade, due to the car door moving toward the door pocket side when a car is in position at a floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaya Kitazawa
  • Publication number: 20160130116
    Abstract: In an elevator car door locking apparatus, a doorstop-side blade is disposed on a car door by a linking mechanism, and is displaceable horizontally between a locked position, and an unlocked position that is further away from a door pocket than the locked position. A balance weight is disposed on an opposite side of the pivoting shaft of the link from the doorstop-side blade. The doorstop-side blade comes into contact with a landing door engaging member and displaces, and the balance weight also displaces away from the doorstop-side blade, due to the car door moving toward the door pocket side when a car is in position at a floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaya KITAZAWA
  • Patent number: 8973714
    Abstract: A door engagement device for an elevator according to the present invention is configured in such a manner that biasing-force applying/changing means applies a turning preventing force for preventing turning of a lever main body and changes a direction of a biasing force to a direction of an anti-turning preventing force to the lever main body by action of turning guiding means with movement of a car door. Accordingly, an engagement-mechanism driving device can be driven with a reduced space at low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Utsunomiya, Hiroshi Kigawa, Masaya Kitazawa, Naotoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20120118676
    Abstract: A door engagement device for an elevator according to the present invention is configured in such a manner that biasing-force applying/changing means applies a turning preventing force for preventing turning of a lever main body and changes a direction of a biasing force to a direction of an anti-turning preventing force to the lever main body by action of turning guiding means with movement of a car door. Accordingly, an engagement-mechanism driving device can be driven with a reduced space at low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Utsunomiya, Hiroshi Kigawa, Masaya Kitazawa, Naotoshi Ito