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Richard E. Kulak — 43 Patents

OEOtis Elevator: 43 patents #11 of 1,840Top 1%
Bristol, CT: #5 of 363 inventorsTop 2%
Connecticut: #617 of 34,797 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #69,380 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time
Richard E. Kulak has been granted 43 US patents while listed as an inventor at Otis Elevator. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in October 2023. Richard E. Kulak ranks #69,380 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Richard E. Kulak in Bristol, CT, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11795033 Elevator car door interlock Michael J. Tracey 2023-10-24
11661315 Monitoring system, elevator door system having monitoring system, and method Michael J. Tracey 2023-05-30
11655122 Elevator door in interlock assembly Michael J. Tracey 2023-05-23
11254542 Car door interlock Michael J. Tracey 2022-02-22
11247872 Elevator car door interlock Michael J. Tracey 2022-02-15
11124389 Elevator car door interlock Michael J. Tracey 2021-09-21
11046557 Elevator door interlock assembly Michael J. Tracey 2021-06-29
11040858 Elevator door interlock assembly Michael J. Tracey 2021-06-22
11034548 Elevator door interlock assembly Michael J. Tracey 2021-06-15
10882720 Elevator car door interlock Michael J. Tracey 2021-01-05
10710843 Car door interlock with sill lock Michael J. Tracey 2020-07-14
10569994 Monitoring system, elevator door system having monitoring system, and method Michael J. Tracey 2020-02-25
10486940 Alignment system for an elevator car Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Bruce P. Swaybill, Zbigniew Piech, Richard J. Ericson 2019-11-26
8272481 Guide assembly for at least one elevator door Michael J. Tracey 2012-09-25
7543686 Elevator with rollers having selectively variable hardness Michael J. Tracey 2009-06-09 $99,685,000
6457569 Rotary actuated overspeed safety device James M. Draper 2002-10-01 $39,989,000
6446759 Door coupler and latch system for elevator car and landing doors Michael J. Tracey 2002-09-10 $65,127,000
6296080 Variable traction mechanism for rotary actuated overspeed safety device James M. Draper 2001-10-02 $58,185,000
5880414 Elevator door brake, brake, lock, and hold-open Jerome F. Jaminet, Thomas M. Kowalczyk, Frank Guliuzza, Jr., Edward E. Ahigian, Thomas M. McHugh +3 more 1999-03-09 $22,278,000
5862887 High performance linear induction motor door operator Bruce P. Swaybill, William L. King, Thomas M. Kowalczyk, Michael J. Tracey, K. Narasimha Reddy +1 more 1999-01-26 $17,469,000
5819877 Elevator evacuation deterrent device James A. Rivera, Michael J. Tracey, Valery Sheynkman, Duane R. Stupienski, Blair J. Cohen 1998-10-13 $7,198,000
5808246 Triac drive for three-phase line-powered linear induction motor elevator door operator Richard E. Peruggi, Thomas M. McHugh, Edward E. Ahigian, Jerome F. Jaminet, Thomas He +3 more 1998-09-15 $6,891,000
5736693 Elevator door drive using dual secondary linear induction motor Zbigniew Piech, Jerome F. Jaminet, Thomas M. Kowalczyk, Edward E. Ahigian, Thomas M. McHugh +3 more 1998-04-07 $14,131,000
5732796 Elevator car evacuation deterrent device Edward E. Ahigian, David W. Barrett, Thomas M. McHugh, Jerome F. Jaminet, Thomas He +2 more 1998-03-31 $17,285,000
5682023 Time-optimal control of an AC line-driven linear motor elevator door operator Thomas M. McHugh, Richard E. Peruggi, Edward E. Ahigian, Jerome F. Jaminet, Thomas He +2 more 1997-10-28 $11,835,000