B23Q 5/00

Driving or feeding mechanisms

Official title: Driving or feeding mechanisms; Control arrangements therefor (automatic control B23Q15/00; copying B23Q33/00, B23Q35/00; specially adapted for boring or drilling machines B23B39/10, B23B47/00 {; numerical program-control of machine tools G05B19/18})

B23Q5/00 (Driving or feeding mechanisms) appears on 2,230 US grants and 1,364 published applications in this corpus.

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Granted patents: 2,230
Published applications: 1,364
Assignees: 1,118
Inventors: 3,871
Latest grant: 6 Oct 2026

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B23Q 5/00: granted patents and published applications per publication year
Year	Granted patents	Published applications
1976	31	0
1977	29	0
1978	40	0
1979	20	0
1980	27	0
1981	24	0
1982	21	0
1983	26	0
1984	34	0
1985	39	0
1986	46	0
1987	54	0
1988	52	0
1989	45	0
1990	46	0
1991	66	0
1992	58	0
1993	47	0
1994	66	0
1995	34	0
1996	40	0
1997	54	0
1998	60	0
1999	58	0
2000	38	0
2001	64	21
2002	66	75
2003	53	65
2004	69	78
2005	45	58
2006	42	30
2007	45	31
2008	28	42
2009	32	51
2010	17	50
2011	41	44
2012	24	34
2013	36	53
2014	38	68
2015	44	70
2016	51	57
2017	69	53
2018	48	68
2019	72	74
2020	54	63
2021	33	70
2022	51	39
2023	44	59
2024	35	52
2025	45	32
2026	29	27

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