B61B 12/007
Cable tensioning devices
Official title: {Cable tensioning devices}
B61B12/007 (Cable tensioning devices) appears on 22 US grants and 16 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61B- Granted patents
- 22
- Published applications
- 16
- Assignees
- 11
- Inventors
- 31
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Cable transportation system11 Jan 2022US 11,220,277 B2Leitner S.P.A.
- Discrete delivery of material18 May 2023US 2023/0151623 A1Contour Crafting Corporation
- Method of controlling an installation for transporting vehicles using a continuously moving cable and device configured to implement the method16 Sep 2021US 2021/0284212 A1Bureau de Etudes de Câbles
- Cableway installation comprising a relay structure between two cable loops12 Aug 2021US 2021/0245788 A1Poma
- Cable transportation system6 Feb 2020US 2020/0039537 A1Leitner S.P.A.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Pneumatic cable tensioning apparatus and method for an aerial tramway or the like29US 4,470,355 A1984
- Arbiter switch for a concurrent network of processors11US 4,488,151 ABurroughs Corporation · 1984
- Controlled cable transport installation10US 5,134,571 AVon Roll Transportsysteme AG · 1992
- Cable tensioning device for ski lifts or aerial cableways7US 4,782,761 ALiftbyggarna AB · 1988
- Wire drive conveying apparatus5US 10,518,979 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha · 2019