A01J 7/025
Teat cup cleaning
Official title: {Teat cup cleaning, e.g. by rinse jetters or nozzles}
A01J7/025 (Teat cup cleaning) appears on 151 US grants and 139 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 139
- Assignees
- 49
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- 135
- Latest grant
- 5 Aug 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Rapid cleaning system of milking cups in milking hall5 Aug 2025US 12,376,557 B2Qingdao Agricultural University
- Cleaning system and a cleaning method especially for a milking cluster29 Oct 2024US 12,127,528 B2
- Safety valve for a dairy system component24 Sep 2024US 12,096,743 B2GEA Farm Technologies GmbH
- Space divider of a milking parlor arrangement, and milking parlor arrangement20 Feb 2024US 11,903,363 B2GEA Farm Technologies GmbH
- Cleaning unit for a cleaning device for cleaning teatcups of a milking apparatus, and a cleaning device21 Nov 2023US 11,819,005 B2DeLaval Holding AB
- Milking Apparatus25 Jun 2026US 2026/0174055 A1Waikato Milking Systems LP
- Rapid cleaning system of milking cups in milking hall18 Apr 2024US 2024/0122153 A1Qingdao Agricultural University
- Safety valve for an automated milker unit backflushing and teat dip applicator system12 Oct 2023US 2023/0320312 A1GEA Farm Technologies GmbH
- Safety valve for a dairy system component20 Apr 2023US 2023/0117201 A1GEA Farm Technologies GmbH
- A cleaning system and a cleaning method especially for a milking cluster22 Sep 2022US 2022/0295735 A1DYRKA, Maciej
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for cleaning of a teat cleaning device157US 6,626,130 B1DeLaval Holding AB · 2003
- Apparatus and method for automatically milking animals148US 5,784,994 A1998
- Method and apparatus for automatically cleaning the teats and udder of an animal after it has been milked143US 5,678,506 AC. van der Lely N. V. · 1997
- Teat cup holder rack123US 6,401,654 B1DeLaval Holding AB · 2002
- Method of cleaning teat cups and/or after-treating the teats of a milked animal, an implement for milking animals applying said method(s), and a cleaning device applied in such an implement81US 5,390,627 AC. van der Lely N. V. · 1995