B27F 7/17
Stapling machines
Official title: Stapling machines (manually operated portable stapling tools, hand- held power-operated stapling tools B25C5/00)
B27F7/17 (Stapling machines) appears on 398 US grants and 280 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B27F- Granted patents
- 398
- Published applications
- 280
- Assignees
- 97
- Inventors
- 384
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 9 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 8 | 0 |
| 1992 | 6 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 6 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 13 | 0 |
| 1999 | 9 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 10 |
| 2002 | 5 | 13 |
| 2003 | 24 | 18 |
| 2004 | 14 | 25 |
| 2005 | 18 | 20 |
| 2006 | 24 | 26 |
| 2007 | 16 | 13 |
| 2008 | 8 | 15 |
| 2009 | 11 | 9 |
| 2010 | 12 | 10 |
| 2011 | 13 | 10 |
| 2012 | 6 | 10 |
| 2013 | 14 | 11 |
| 2014 | 4 | 6 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5 |
| 2016 | 9 | 1 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10 |
| 2018 | 4 | 14 |
| 2019 | 3 | 11 |
| 2020 | 20 | 10 |
| 2021 | 13 | 11 |
| 2022 | 5 | 4 |
| 2023 | 5 | 2 |
| 2024 | 4 | 9 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Electric stapler9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192483 A1
- Conveyor belt fastener applicator30 Apr 2026US 2026/0117843 A1Flexible Steel Lacing Company
- Refill9 Apr 2026US 2026/0098559 A1Max Co., Ltd.
- Post-processing device and image forming apparatus19 Mar 2026US 2026/0077976 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Finisher for binding a sheet bundle4 Dec 2025US 2025/0368469 A1Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electric stapler1,473US 7,083,073 B2Max Co., Ltd. · 2006
- Staple refill, stapler and cartridge1,456US 7,748,587 B2Max Co., Ltd. · 2010
- Electric stapler and operation method of electric stapler1,022US 8,371,393 B2Max Co., Ltd. · 2013
- Staple detecting mechanism of electric stapler794US 7,048,165 B2Max Co., Ltd. · 2006
- Variable thickness set compensation for stapler637US 4,421,264 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1983