B25J 15/0023
Gripper surfaces directly activated by a fluid
Official title: {Gripper surfaces directly activated by a fluid (flexible fingers B25J15/12)}
B25J15/0023 (Gripper surfaces directly activated by a fluid) appears on 242 US grants and 290 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
- 242
- Published applications
- 290
- Assignees
- 148
- Inventors
- 571
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 17 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Dynamically inflatable deformable membranes8 Sep 2026US 12,728,545 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Apparatus for sampling or gripping by means of a deformable tool8 Sep 2026US 12,728,547 B2Orano Ds—DéMantèLement Et Services
- Augmented system and method for grasping objects18 Aug 2026US 12,709,024 B2Nexera Robotics Corp.
- Method and apparatus for an adaptable suction device11 Aug 2026US 12,703,111 B2Nexera Robotics Corp.
- Apparatus for retrieving deep-sea nodules11 Aug 2026US 12,704,065 B2Impossible Metals Inc.
- Universal Gripper6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225231 A1Voyager Space Holdings, Inc.
- Biomimetic finger, gripper, and manufacturing method of biomimetic finger6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225263 A1Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Robot hand, control device, and accommodating container6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225264 A1Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Contact estimation method, contact estimation program, and contact estimation device30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216889 A1Bridgestone Corporation
- Robot hand and robot arm16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200104 A1Bridgestone Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Articulatable members having constrained motion and related devices and methods500US 11,109,925 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2021
- Torus-shaped mechanical gripper158US 6,846,029 B12005
- Gripping device68US 9,623,570 B12017
- Method and device for manipulating an object65US 8,548,626 B2iRobot Corporation · 2013
- Variable stiffness suction gripper60US 9,457,477 B1Google Inc. · 2016