B60B 19/006
Magnetic wheels
Official title: {Magnetic wheels}
B60B19/006 (Magnetic wheels) appears on 104 US grants and 132 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60B- Granted patents
- 104
- Published applications
- 132
- Assignees
- 41
- Inventors
- 161
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2017 | 3 | 6 |
| 2018 | 3 | 22 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8 |
| 2020 | 8 | 15 |
| 2021 | 13 | 7 |
| 2022 | 9 | 23 |
| 2023 | 12 | 17 |
| 2024 | 19 | 7 |
| 2025 | 19 | 8 |
| 2026 | 3 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Magnetic levitation train rescue wheel device and magnetic levitation train20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241965 A1Crrc Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
- System, method & apparatus for remote pipe inspection11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160708 A1Northeast Gas Association
- Moving device, control method for moving device, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing control program7 May 2026US 2026/0125125 A1Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Systems, methods and apparatus for temperature control and active cooling of an inspection robot30 Apr 2026US 2026/0116123 A1
- Moving device, control method for moving device, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing control program23 Oct 2025US 2025/0326106 A1Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Magnetic wheel121US 6,125,955 AAqua Dynamics, Inc. · 2000
- Modular mobile inspection vehicle81US 9,863,919 B2Saudi Arabian Oil Company · 2018
- System, method, and apparatus to perform a surface inspection using real-time position information71US 10,481,608 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc. · 2019
- Inspection robot with couplant chamber disposed within sled for acoustic coupling71US 10,698,412 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc. · 2020
- Inspection robot having vertically distributed payloads with horizontally distributed sensor sleds68US 10,534,365 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc. · 2020