A46B 5/0066
Flexible resilience by elastic deformation of the material
Official title: {Flexible resilience by elastic deformation of the material}
A46B5/0066 (Flexible resilience by elastic deformation of the material) appears on 68 US grants and 73 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A46B- Granted patents
- 68
- Published applications
- 73
- Assignees
- 35
- Inventors
- 112
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 9 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 6 | 6 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Toothbrush with displaceable head135US 5,052,071 ALingner & Fischer GmbH · 1991
- Resiliently flexible toothbrush96US 4,520,526 A1985
- Toothbrush employing resiliently buckling arch to indicate excessive brushing pressure67US 5,146,645 AThe Procter & Gamble Company · 1992
- Toothbrush having controlled head movement59US 6,292,973 B12001
- Flexibly jointed toilet brush58US 6,154,913 AGeneral Housewares Corp. · 2000