B43K 1/084
Ball beds
Official title: {Ball beds}
B43K1/084 (Ball beds) appears on 32 US grants and 23 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B43K- Granted patents
- 32
- Published applications
- 23
- Assignees
- 14
- Inventors
- 57
- Latest grant
- 11 Feb 2025
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| 2024 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Writing ball, method for manufacturing writing ball, and ballpoint pen with writing ball11 Feb 2025US 12,220,937 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation
- Passive variable friction pen9 Jul 2024US 12,030,339 B2Societe BIC
- Method of surface texturing for a writing instrument tip11 Jun 2024US 12,005,536 B2Societe BIC
- Ballpoint pen tip, ballpoint pen refill, and ballpoint pen7 May 2024US 11,975,560 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation
- Textured ball seat24 Oct 2023US 11,794,509 B2Societe BIC
- Writing ball, method for manufacturing writing ball, and ballpoint pen with writing ball19 Dec 2024US 2024/0416673 A1KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION (also trading as PILOT CORPORATION)
- Ballpoint pen tip, ballpoint pen refill, and ballpoint pen14 Dec 2023US 2023/0398807 A1KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION (also trading as PILOT CORPORATION)
- Passive variable friction pen27 Jul 2023US 2023/0234392 A1Societe BIC
- Method of surface texturing for a writing instrument tip15 Sep 2022US 2022/0288728 A1Societe BIC
- Textured ball seat12 Aug 2021US 2021/0245543 A1Societe BIC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Correction fluid21US 5,338,775 AThe Gillette Company · 1994
- Ball-point pen13US 6,082,920 AMitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited · 2000
- Ball-point pen and a penpoint tip therein10US 6,422,776 B1Sakura Color Products Corporation · 2002
- Correction fluid9US 5,516,223 AThe Gillette Company · 1996
- Ballpoint pen6US 7,083,352 B2The Pilot Ink Co., Ltd. · 2006