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  2. /B · Performing operations
  3. /B21 · Mechanical metal-working without essentially removing material
  4. /B21G · Making needles, pins or nails of metal
  5. /B21G 7/00 · Making pins of u-like shape or split-pins
  6. /B21G 7/02 · Making pins of u-like shape or split-pins: of u-like shape
  7. /B21G 7/04
B21G 7/04

Of hairpins

Official title: of hairpins

B21G7/04 (Of hairpins) appears on 5 US grants and 5 published applications in this corpus.

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Where it sits

  1. BPerforming operations
  2. B21Mechanical metal-working without essentially removing material
  3. B21GMaking needles, pins or nails of metal
  4. B21G 7/00Making pins of u-like shape or split-pins
  5. B21G 7/02Making pins of u-like shape or split-pins: of u-like shape
  6. B21G 7/04Of hairpins
  7. 1subgroup, listed below
Granted patents
5
Published applications
5
Assignees
4
Inventors
2
Latest grant
4 Nov 2025

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Granted patentsPublished applications
B21G 7/04: granted patents and published applications per publication year
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201600
201711
201800
201910
202000
202101
202211
202300
202411
202510

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Subgroups

Granted patents
  • B21G 7/06Of undulated hairpins2

Recent patents

  • Method of inserting a hairpin4 Nov 2025US 12,463,512 B2Hyundai Motor Company
  • Method of inserting a hairpin23 Jan 2024US 11,881,748 B2Hyundai Motor Company
  • Apparatus for molding hairpin7 Jun 2022US 11,356,004 B2Hyundai Motor Company
  • Hair clipping device12 Mar 2019US 10,226,811 B2Tung Hing Plastic Manufactory Ltd.
  • Hair clipping device9 May 2017US 9,642,431 B2Tung Hing Plastic Manufactory Ltd.
  • Method of inserting a hairpin18 Apr 2024US 2024/0128842 A1Hyundai Motor Company
  • Apparatus for Molding Hairpin and Method of Inserting Hairpin Using the Same6 Oct 2022US 2022/0320977 A1Hyundai Motor Company
  • Apparatus for Molding Hairpin and Method of Inserting Hairpin Using the Same30 Dec 2021US 2021/0408879 A1Hyundai Motor Company
  • Hair clipping device29 Jun 2017US 2017/0181517 A1Tung Hing Plastic Manufactory Ltd.
  • Hair clipping device20 Aug 2015US 2015/0230578 A1Tung Hing Plastic Manufactory Ltd.

Most cited

By later US patents
  • Apparatus for molding hairpin3US 11,356,004 B2Hyundai Motor Company · 2022

Top assignees

Documents
  • Hyundai Motor Company6
  • Kia Corporation5
  • THTung Hing Plastic Manufactory Ltd.4
  • Kia Motors Corporation1

Often classified with

  • B21FWorking or processing of metal wire10
  • B21DWorking or processing of sheet metal or metal tubes, rods or profiles6
  • H02KDynamo-electric machines6
  • Y10TTechnical subjects covered by former us classification6
  • A45DHairdressing or shaving equipment4

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