A47L 5/28
Suction cleaners with handles and nozzles fixed on the casings
Official title: Suction cleaners with handles and nozzles fixed on the casings, e.g. wheeled suction cleaners with steering handle (A47L5/24 takes precedence)
A47L5/28 (Suction cleaners with handles and nozzles fixed on the casings) appears on 1,771 US grants and 1,887 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47L- Granted patents
- 1,771
- Published applications
- 1,887
- Assignees
- 295
- Inventors
- 2,152
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979 | 6 | 0 |
| 1980 | 7 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 7 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 10 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 10 | 0 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 |
| 1989 | 13 | 0 |
| 1990 | 10 | 0 |
| 1991 | 11 | 0 |
| 1992 | 19 | 0 |
| 1993 | 17 | 0 |
| 1994 | 30 | 0 |
| 1995 | 9 | 0 |
| 1996 | 16 | 0 |
| 1997 | 17 | 0 |
| 1998 | 29 | 0 |
| 1999 | 27 | 0 |
| 2000 | 45 | 0 |
| 2001 | 48 | 22 |
| 2002 | 40 | 45 |
| 2003 | 44 | 42 |
| 2004 | 28 | 79 |
| 2005 | 28 | 58 |
| 2006 | 31 | 60 |
| 2007 | 37 | 76 |
| 2008 | 45 | 55 |
| 2009 | 37 | 80 |
| 2010 | 50 | 58 |
| 2011 | 48 | 65 |
| 2012 | 32 | 47 |
| 2013 | 53 | 49 |
| 2014 | 58 | 61 |
| 2015 | 51 | 52 |
| 2016 | 53 | 77 |
| 2017 | 62 | 105 |
| 2018 | 67 | 94 |
| 2019 | 98 | 111 |
| 2020 | 88 | 121 |
| 2021 | 107 | 132 |
| 2022 | 82 | 93 |
| 2023 | 94 | 92 |
| 2024 | 83 | 99 |
| 2025 | 53 | 61 |
| 2026 | 35 | 53 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Surface cleaning apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,745,882 B2Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
- Cleaner15 Sep 2026US 12,733,779 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Vacuum cleaner and method for controlling the same15 Sep 2026US 12,733,782 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Cordless vacuum cleaner including plurality of batteries and method for controlling same8 Sep 2026US 12,727,726 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Surface cleaning apparatus8 Sep 2026US 12,727,731 B2Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
- User-prompted cleaning by autonomous vacuum8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305895 A1Matic Robots, Inc. (fka Matician, Inc.)
- Surface cleaning apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294184 A1Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
- Floor cleaner with a low power mode1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294193 A1Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited
- Hand carryable surface cleaning apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283417 A1Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
- Stick vacuum cleaner system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283418 A1Aktiebolaget Electrolux
Most cited
By later US patents
- Mobile robots and their control system575US 6,389,329 B12002
- Autonomous floor-cleaning robot453US 6,883,201 B2iRobot Corporation · 2005
- Automatic machine and device for floor dusting439US 5,787,545 A1998
- Robot cleaner355US 5,440,216 ASamsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 1995
- Autonomous floor cleaning robot349US 7,636,982 B2iRobot Corporation · 2009