A47L 11/4013
Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like
Official title: {Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like}
A47L11/4013 (Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like) appears on 1,207 US grants and 1,392 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47L- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2019 | 59 | 113 |
| 2020 | 67 | 88 |
| 2021 | 95 | 125 |
| 2022 | 86 | 110 |
| 2023 | 104 | 105 |
| 2024 | 90 | 130 |
| 2025 | 54 | 118 |
| 2026 | 44 | 87 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
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- Air/liquid separation system for an extraction cleaner29 Sep 2026US 12,745,887 B2BISSELL Inc.
- Pad washing dock for mobile cleaning robots29 Sep 2026US 12,745,889 B2iRobot Corporation
- User-prompted cleaning by autonomous vacuum8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305895 A1Matic Robots, Inc. (fka Matician, Inc.)
- Extraction cleaner8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305903 A1BISSELL Inc.
- Floor cleaner with a low power mode1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294193 A1Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited
- Cleaning device with an adjustable squeegee assembly24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283432 A1Wensch Holding B.V.
- Surface cleaning apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283435 A1Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
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By later US patents
- Mobile work robot system511US 5,959,423 AMinolta Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning295US 7,761,954 B2iRobot Corporation · 2010
- Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning257US 7,389,156 B2iRobot Corporation · 2008
- Coverage robot mobility237US 7,441,298 B2iRobot Corporation · 2008
- Robotic extraction cleaner with dusting pad225US 7,320,149 B1BISSELL Homecare, Inc. · 2008