B43K 7/10
Arrangements for feeding ink to the ball points
Official title: Arrangements for feeding ink to the ball points (B43K7/01 takes precedence)
B43K7/10 (Arrangements for feeding ink to the ball points) appears on 147 US grants and 101 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B43K- Granted patents
- 147
- Published applications
- 101
- Assignees
- 62
- Inventors
- 262
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2004 | 3 | 10 |
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| 2021 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Writing implement29 Sep 2026US 12,746,776 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Pilot Corporation
- Writing instrument27 May 2025US 12,311,694 B2Sanford, L. P.
- Ballpoint pen refill and ballpoint pen15 Apr 2025US 12,275,271 B2Mitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited
- Knock type direct liquid pen refill assembly and writing pen18 Feb 2025US 12,227,023 B2Qingdao Best Point Stationery Co., Ltd.
- Ball point tip and writing instrument fitted with such a ball point tip11 Feb 2025US 12,220,938 B2Societe BIC
- Oil-in-water ink composition for writing utensils3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258263 A1Mitsubishi Pencil Company, Limited
- Smart pen2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184101 A1The Codder Co., Ltd.
- Retractable container9 Oct 2025US 2025/0313035 A1
- Writing instrument11 Sep 2025US 2025/0282170 A1Sanford, L. P.
- Writing implement30 Jan 2025US 2025/0033402 A1KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION (also trading as PILOT CORPORATION)
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multicolor writing and painting instruments with multiple, bundled, hard, wear-resistant nibs106US 8,403,577 B2University of Southern California · 2013
- Plotter stylus with cap covered vent43US 4,712,937 ASchmidt Feintechnik GmbH · 1987
- Aqueous ink writing tip41US 4,500,222 AWaite & Son Limited · 1985
- Writing pen holder with three wicks35US 4,671,692 AThe Pilot Ink Co., Ltd. · 1987
- Device for applying writing, drawing, printing and painting fluids onto a surface33US 5,352,052 ADataprint Datendrucksysteme R. Kaufmann KG · 1994