Inventor

Joseph Bittar

Inventor

Avon, CT, US

Overview

1978–2000

Patent span

Performing operations

Primary field (CPC B)

Patents· 48 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

B66Bprimary

B66BElevators81%

Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests7%

Y02BClimate change mitigation technologies related to buildings, e.g. housing, house appliances or related end-user applications5%

B61BRailway systems4%

B61KAuxiliary equipment specially adapted for railways, not otherwise provided for2%

B66DCapstans2%

PatentTitleYear

6,152,265'Accommodating visually handicapped in elevator up-peak channeling'2000 6,038,980'Transferring freight or passenger cabs between moving bogies'2000 5,969,304'Elevator system having high rise elevator without express zone'1999 5,924,524'Integrated, multi-level elevator shuttle'1999 5,862,886'Pretorque to unload elevator car/floor locks before retraction'1999 5,861,586'Horizontal and vertical passenger transport'1999 5,829,553'Fail-safe movement of elevator cabs between car frames and landings'1998 5,823,299'Shuttle elevators feeding local elevators'1998 5,785,153'Synchronizing elevator arrival at a level of a building'1998 5,773,772'Transferring elevator cabs between non-contiguous hoistways'1998 5,771,995'Locking elevator car frame to building during loading/unloading horizontally moveable cab'1998 5,758,748'Synchronized off-shaft loading of elevator cabs'1998 5,752,585'Elevator shuttle with auxiliary elevators at terminals'1998 5,749,441'Extra deck elevator shuttle'1998 5,732,795'Power and communication for elevator car without traveling cable'1998 5,712,456'Flywheel energy storage for operating elevators'1998 5,695,024'Car operated safety gate for horizontally transferrable elevator cab'1997 5,663,539'Passenger transfer, double deck, multi-elevator shuttle system'1997 5,660,249'Elevator cabs transferred horizontally between double deck elevators'1997 5,657,835'Elevator shuttle employing horizontally transferred cab'1997 5,655,625'Emergency elevator cab commandeering shuttle'1997 5,651,426'Synchronous elevator shuttle system'1997 5,601,156'Maintaining communications and power during transfer of horizontally moveable elevator cab'1997 5,564,550'Adapting escalator speed to traffic using fuzzy logic'1996 5,480,005'Elevator swing car assignment to plural groups'1996 5,460,245'Elevator swing car service of interrise hall calls'1995 5,454,448'Elevator call buttons having plural illuminated indications of availability and use'1995 5,300,739'Cyclically varying an elevator car\'s assigned group in a system where each group has a separate lobby corridor'1994 5,286,930'Variable elevator door dwell time based upon time of notification of assigned car'1994 5,271,484'Selectable notification time indicating elevator car arrival'1993 5,266,757'Elevator motion profile selection'1993 5,168,133'Automated selection of high traffic intensity algorithms for up-peak period'1992 D0325355'Elevator hall traffic sensor housing'1992 4,815,568'Weighted relative system response elevator car assignment system with variable bonuses and penalties'1989 4,804,069'Contiguous floor channeling elevator dispatching'1989 4,792,019'Contiguous floor channeling with up hall call elevator dispatching'1988 4,401,190'Cars/floors and calls/cars elevator assignments'1983 4,365,694'Preventing elevator car calls behind car'1982 4,363,381'Relative system response elevator call assignments'1982 4,352,411'Elevator floor cutoff'1982 4,352,412'Elevator express priority service'1982 4,352,410'Operational control of elevator car calls'1982 4,350,226'Elevator floor stop look-ahead'1982 4,349,087'Elevator motor/generator run protocol'1982 4,323,142'Dynamically reevaluated elevator call assignments'1982 4,305,479'Variable elevator up peak dispatching interval'1981 4,299,309'Empty elevator car determination'1981 4,124,102'Elevator control system'1978

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1978–2000Patents assigned to OTIS ELEVATOR CO (48)· patent assignee history

1978Based in Brooklyn, NY, US· patent location history

1981–1983Based in Simsbury, CT, US· patent location history

1988–2000Based in Avon, CT, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
OTIS ELEVATOR CO	48	1978–2000

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Avon, CT, US	36	1988–2000
Simsbury, CT, US	11	1981–1983
Brooklyn, New York, US	1	1978