B60B 19/14
Ball-type wheels
Official title: Ball-type wheels (B60B19/06 takes precedence)
B60B19/14 (Ball-type wheels) appears on 78 US grants and 89 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60B- Granted patents
- 78
- Published applications
- 89
- Assignees
- 60
- Inventors
- 190
- Latest grant
- 17 Mar 2026
Filings by year
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| 2023 | 3 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 8 |
| 2026 | 1 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vehicle with spherical wheels17 Mar 2026US 12,576,936 B2Early Rider Limited
- Trailer jack and transport systems employing a spherical load-bearing transport ball, and sport, recreational and utility trailer systems and methods employing the same9 Sep 2025US 12,409,689 B2Orbitjack LLC
- Apparatus, system, and method of providing a stabilizing drive system for a robotic vehicle19 Aug 2025US 12,391,067 B2Jabil Inc.
- Spherical body drive type movement device27 Aug 2024US 12,071,187 B2Kyushu Institute of Technology
- Low-profile and high-load ball-balancing rolling system30 Jul 2024US 12,048,655 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
- Moving body and moving method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208527 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Trailer jack and transport systems employing a spherical load-bearing transport ball, and sport, recreational and utility trailer systems and methods employng the same21 May 2026US 2026/0138406 A1Orbitjack LLC
- 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.
- Ball Caster Mechanism30 Apr 2026US 2026/0116125 A1
- Air wheel car9 Apr 2026US 2026/0097610 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Holonomic platform for a robot204US 6,888,333 B2Intouch Health · 2005
- Transformable vehicle196US 6,502,657 B2The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. · 2003
- Reconfigurable footprint mechanism for omnidirectional vehicles186US 5,927,423 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1999
- Omni-directional and holonomic rolling platform with decoupled rotational and translational degrees of freedom184US 5,374,879 AMartin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. · 1994
- Drive wheel122US 6,474,434 B1Borringis Industrie AG · 2002