B31D 5/006
Including controlled deformation of flat material
Official title: {including controlled deformation of flat material, e.g. pleating, corrugating or embossing (including crumpling flat material B31D5/0043)}
B31D5/006 (Including controlled deformation of flat material) appears on 132 US grants and 160 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B31D- Granted patents
- 132
- Published applications
- 160
- Assignees
- 48
- Inventors
- 137
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 6 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 3 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 |
| 2004 | 2 | 7 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 5 |
| 2011 | 1 | 8 |
| 2012 | 3 | 7 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 | 6 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 4 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 5 |
| 2020 | 6 | 9 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11 |
| 2022 | 13 | 15 |
| 2023 | 10 | 21 |
| 2024 | 13 | 19 |
| 2025 | 13 | 11 |
| 2026 | 7 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for fabricating dunnage material from continuous web material140US 5,203,761 ASealed Air Corporation · 1993
- Folding and crimping apparatus111US 5,088,972 AEco-Pack Industries, Inc. · 1992
- Composite packaging material having an expanded sheet with a separator sheet104US 5,688,578 A1997
- Resilient packing product and method and apparatus for making the same100US 5,173,352 ARanpak Corp. · 1992
- Method and apparatus for producing individual rolls of packing material85US 5,782,735 AGeopax Ltd · 1998