A47B 88/40
Sliding drawers
Official title: Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor
A47B88/40 (Sliding drawers) appears on 2,804 US grants and 2,663 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47B- Granted patents
- 2,804
- Published applications
- 2,663
- Assignees
- 796
- Inventors
- 3,205
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 15 | 0 |
| 1977 | 14 | 0 |
| 1978 | 16 | 0 |
| 1979 | 14 | 0 |
| 1980 | 18 | 0 |
| 1981 | 15 | 0 |
| 1982 | 14 | 0 |
| 1983 | 10 | 0 |
| 1984 | 31 | 0 |
| 1985 | 19 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 34 | 0 |
| 1992 | 23 | 0 |
| 1993 | 34 | 0 |
| 1994 | 28 | 0 |
| 1995 | 42 | 0 |
| 1996 | 37 | 0 |
| 1997 | 29 | 0 |
| 1998 | 30 | 0 |
| 1999 | 33 | 0 |
| 2000 | 39 | 0 |
| 2001 | 28 | 16 |
| 2002 | 59 | 37 |
| 2003 | 34 | 58 |
| 2004 | 44 | 90 |
| 2005 | 59 | 66 |
| 2006 | 36 | 74 |
| 2007 | 46 | 62 |
| 2008 | 35 | 97 |
| 2009 | 36 | 115 |
| 2010 | 69 | 84 |
| 2011 | 68 | 91 |
| 2012 | 75 | 79 |
| 2013 | 84 | 104 |
| 2014 | 96 | 111 |
| 2015 | 95 | 115 |
| 2016 | 103 | 110 |
| 2017 | 137 | 202 |
| 2018 | 145 | 155 |
| 2019 | 189 | 135 |
| 2020 | 158 | 135 |
| 2021 | 117 | 164 |
| 2022 | 125 | 116 |
| 2023 | 89 | 85 |
| 2024 | 92 | 121 |
| 2025 | 115 | 135 |
| 2026 | 70 | 106 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A47B 88/423Fastening devices for slides or guides899
- A47B 88/49With double extensible guides or parts701
- A47B 88/453Actuated drawers635
- A47B 88/483With single extensible guides or parts444
- A47B 88/473Braking devices314
- A47B 88/44Sequencing or synchronisation of drawer slides or functional units249
- A47B 88/407Adjustably or detachably mounted drawers221
- A47B 88/437Rollers for slides or guides129
All 19 subgroupsShow fewer
- A47B 88/42Vertically-oriented drawers, i.e. drawers where the height exceeds the width124
- A47B 88/402Profiles or supporting structures for supporting single drawers104
- A47B 2088/401Slides or guides for wire basketsIndexing code77
- A47B 88/417Profiled cabinet walls with grooves or protuberances for supporting drawers68
- A47B 88/48Drawers which can be rotated while or after sliding out67
- A47B 88/497With other guiding mechanisms60
- A47B 88/403Drawer slides being extractable on two or more sides of the cabinet51
- A47B 88/41Drawers with castors, rollers or wheels, supported directly on a surface below44
- A47B 88/413Drawers slidable into a space provided between furniture body and floor15
- A47B 88/433Drawers with a couple of pivotally retractable, roller-supporting arms at the rear15
- A47B 2088/4015With magnets holding the drawer in closed positionIndexing code13
Recent patents
- Refrigerator6 Oct 2026US 12,753,966 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Adjusting device and related slide rail mechanism29 Sep 2026US 12,745,841 B2King Slide Technology Co., Ltd.
- Adjustable puzzle table22 Sep 2026US 12,741,196 B1
- Storage box8 Sep 2026US 12,727,668 B2Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Luggage storage berth device8 Sep 2026US 12,727,669 B2
- Pull-out guide for a drawer8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305820 A1Julius Blum GmbH
- Pull-out guide for a sliding element of a piece of furniture with a height adjustment device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305821 A1Paul Hettich GmbH & Co.KG
- Interlocking mechanism for cabinet with multiple stacked drawers1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297983 A1Sj Global Marketing Sdn. Bhd.
- Sliding rail device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304681 A1Fositek Corporation
- Arrangement of a frame for a corner cabinet with a pull-out device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283347 A1Peka-Metall AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Storage rack with an extendible shelf structure225US 4,482,066 A1984
- Slide arrangement for cable drawer222US 7,171,099 B2ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2007
- Slide arrangement for cable drawer188US 7,308,184 B2ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2007
- Slide arrangement for cable drawer183US 7,499,623 B2ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2009
- Railing with grounding tabs for grounding and mounting computer components in a computer157US 5,262,923 ATandon Corporation · 1993