A47L 7/0004
Suction cleaners adapted to take up liquids
Official title: {Suction cleaners adapted to take up liquids, e.g. wet or dry vacuum cleaners (floor-scrubbing machines taking-up dirty liquid by suction A47L11/30)}
A47L7/0004 (Suction cleaners adapted to take up liquids) appears on 916 US grants and 930 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47L- Granted patents
- 916
- Published applications
- 930
- Assignees
- 267
- Inventors
- 1,473
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 7 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 17 | 0 |
| 1990 | 11 | 0 |
| 1991 | 8 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 10 | 0 |
| 1997 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 0 |
| 1999 | 25 | 0 |
| 2000 | 28 | 0 |
| 2001 | 24 | 9 |
| 2002 | 29 | 22 |
| 2003 | 26 | 11 |
| 2004 | 12 | 15 |
| 2005 | 6 | 27 |
| 2006 | 7 | 22 |
| 2007 | 16 | 24 |
| 2008 | 11 | 29 |
| 2009 | 11 | 14 |
| 2010 | 18 | 15 |
| 2011 | 11 | 14 |
| 2012 | 7 | 19 |
| 2013 | 15 | 18 |
| 2014 | 17 | 26 |
| 2015 | 23 | 39 |
| 2016 | 22 | 28 |
| 2017 | 28 | 38 |
| 2018 | 32 | 34 |
| 2019 | 40 | 74 |
| 2020 | 47 | 43 |
| 2021 | 51 | 73 |
| 2022 | 45 | 62 |
| 2023 | 50 | 85 |
| 2024 | 70 | 82 |
| 2025 | 43 | 50 |
| 2026 | 33 | 57 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Extraction cleaner with cleaning and debris separation29 Sep 2026US 12,745,888 B1SharkNinja Operating LLC
- Cleaner head for a cleaning appliance22 Sep 2026US 12,740,677 B2Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited
- Airbrush vacuum kit22 Sep 2026US 12,740,679 B2
- Recovery tank22 Sep 2026US 12,740,683 B2SharkNinja Operating LLC
- 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.)
- Autonomous Vacuum Sweeping System Having a Brush Roller with Buffer Zone1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294091 A1Matic Robots, Inc.
- Vacuum tools1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294186 A1Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
- Floor cleaner with a low power mode1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294193 A1Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited
- Surface cleaning apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283435 A1Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning295US 7,761,954 B2iRobot Corporation · 2010
- Surface cleaning apparatus267US 8,146,201 B2G. B. D. Corp. · 2012
- Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning257US 7,389,156 B2iRobot Corporation · 2008
- Upright extraction cleaning machine240US 6,131,237 ABISSELL Homecare, Inc. · 2000
- Dual filter wet/dry hand-held vacuum cleaner227US 6,434,785 B1Headwaters Research & Development, Inc. · 2002