B25J 15/06
Gripping heads and other end effectors: with vacuum or magnetic holding means
Official title: with vacuum or magnetic holding means
B25J15/06 (Gripping heads and other end effectors: with vacuum or magnetic holding means) appears on 1,965 US grants and 2,537 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
- 1,965
- Published applications
- 2,537
- Assignees
- 1,106
- Inventors
- 4,820
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 23 | 0 |
| 2001 | 17 | 9 |
| 2002 | 17 | 12 |
| 2003 | 14 | 13 |
| 2004 | 13 | 12 |
| 2005 | 5 | 6 |
| 2006 | 9 | 14 |
| 2007 | 9 | 11 |
| 2008 | 4 | 18 |
| 2009 | 5 | 24 |
| 2010 | 14 | 28 |
| 2011 | 9 | 26 |
| 2012 | 22 | 25 |
| 2013 | 27 | 47 |
| 2014 | 35 | 55 |
| 2015 | 48 | 110 |
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| 2017 | 83 | 102 |
| 2018 | 98 | 147 |
| 2019 | 121 | 197 |
| 2020 | 172 | 207 |
| 2021 | 153 | 244 |
| 2022 | 166 | 234 |
| 2023 | 191 | 209 |
| 2024 | 199 | 259 |
| 2025 | 182 | 242 |
| 2026 | 156 | 185 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Item inventory management system with vacuum-operated sorter6 Oct 2026US 12,752,310 B2eBay Inc.
- Apparatus, system and method for a variable swath end effector6 Oct 2026US 12,752,437 B2Jabil Inc.
- Substrate gripper and method for moving a substrate using the same6 Oct 2026US 12,752,438 B2Absolics Inc.
- Non-contact suction cup device with flow recycling6 Oct 2026US 12,752,439 B2Wcb Robotics Inc.
- Picking device29 Sep 2026US 12,746,694 B2Pegatron Corporation
- Component handling systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307214 A1Magswitch Automation Company
- Component handling systems and methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307215 A1Magswitch Automation Company
- Control device, control method for robot, and robot control system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307244 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods of matrix manufacturing with work cells8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307260 A1Reframe Systems, Inc.
- Picking module8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307273 A1Velec Systems
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for removal of objects from body passages1,506US 4,865,030 AAmerican Medical Systems, Inc. · 1989
- Suction structure, robot hand and robot532US 8,991,887 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki · 2015
- Autonomous order fulfillment and inventory control robots336US 9,120,622 B1inVia Robotics, Inc. · 2015
- Postal sorting machine with a feed inlet having a robotized arm and a sloping flat conveyor124US 9,878,349 B2Solystic · 2018
- Device for use in the handling of a load and method for producing such a device117US 10,173,327 B2Fft Produktionssysteme GmbH & Co. KG · 2019