B25J 9/142
Comprising inflatable bodies
Official title: {comprising inflatable bodies}
B25J9/142 (Comprising inflatable bodies) appears on 303 US grants and 354 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 18 | 26 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Programmable soft actuators25 Aug 2026US 12,719,390 B2The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
- Actuator features to improve function of a mobile robot11 Aug 2026US 12,703,079 B2Roam Robotics Inc.
- Unified pneumatic and electrical connector system and method11 Aug 2026US 12,703,116 B2Roam Robotics Inc.
- Soft pneumatic module and soft pneumatic gripper4 Aug 2026US 12,697,740 B2Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
- Pneumatic soft actuators with tunable force-displacement relation and methods and machines therefor2 Jun 2026US 12,643,226 B2Purdue Research Foundation
- Non-rigid, deformable robotic body24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284866 A1
- Modular soft robotic system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273724 A1The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Articulable inverting and everting robotic limbs13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233385 A1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Wristed vine robot6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225229 A1The Regents of the University of California
- Dynamic mechanical skin structures for animatronic figures6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225255 A1Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Actuators for simulating muscle activity in robotics170US 5,697,285 A1997
- Method and system employing strings of opposed gaseous-fluid inflatable tension actuators in jointed arms, legs, beams and columns for controlling their movements138US 4,784,042 A1988
- Hydraulic muscle pump105US 4,962,751 AWelch Allyn, Inc. · 1990
- Motorized joint91US 4,944,755 AAir Muscle Limited · 1990
- Positioning, exploration, and/or intervention device, in particular in the field of endoscopy and/or mini-invasive surgery91US 6,875,170 B2Universite Pierre et Marie Curie · 2005