A01B 49/04
Combinations of soil-working tools with non-soil-working tools
Official title: Combinations of soil-working tools with non-soil-working tools, e.g. planting tools
A01B49/04 (Combinations of soil-working tools with non-soil-working tools) appears on 522 US grants and 472 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Gauge arm6 Oct 2026US 12,751,349 B2
- Articulated combine having rear module with seedbed preparation mechanism18 Aug 2026US 12,708,060 B2Tribine Industries LLC
- Arrangement of equipment, working vehicle and method in particular for maintaining green areas, mowing, soil tillage, or harvesting raw or cereal crops21 Jul 2026US 12,685,266 B2Fischer Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG
- Agricultural sampling system and related methods21 Jul 2026US 12,687,468 B2Precision Planting LLC
- Striptill row unit16 Jun 2026US 12,653,081 B2Harvest International, Inc.
- Row Cleaner30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215352 A1Precision Planting LLC
- Electrical Conductivity Sensor Assembly for a Seed-Planting Implement23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110678 A1CNH Industrial America LLC
- Lawncare apparatus, method, and system12 Mar 2026US 2026/0068796 A1
- Implements and application units for placement of applications with respect to agricultural plants of agricultural fields12 Mar 2026US 2026/0068810 A1Precision Planting LLC
- Robotic weed control apparatus and method15 Jan 2026US 2026/0013490 A1Greenfield Robotics Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Conservation tillage row crop planter system118US 4,377,979 AHiniker Company · 1983
- Agricultural systems111US 9,232,687 B2Dawn Equipment Company · 2016
- Apparatus for preparing soil for seed and method of using the apparatus107US 5,477,792 ADawn Equipment Company · 1995
- Sub-soil breaking, surface-soil conditioning and planter machine106US 4,055,126 A1977
- Attachment for removing residue in front of a planter97US 4,550,122 AFleischer Manufacturing, Inc. · 1985