B61B 3/00
Elevated railway systems with suspended vehicles
Official title: Elevated railway systems with suspended vehicles (with suspended flexible tracks B61B7/00; saddle or like balanced type with monorail B61B13/06; with propelling cables and for transporting materials B65G; tracks therefor E01B25/00)
B61B3/00 (Elevated railway systems with suspended vehicles) appears on 404 US grants and 445 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61B- Granted patents
- 404
- Published applications
- 445
- Assignees
- 183
- Inventors
- 762
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2022 | 26 | 45 |
| 2023 | 16 | 33 |
| 2024 | 41 | 37 |
| 2025 | 32 | 30 |
| 2026 | 23 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Transport facility22 Sep 2026US 12,745,599 B2Daifuku Co., Ltd.
- Transport vehicle15 Sep 2026US 12,735,267 B2Daifuku Co., Ltd.
- Contactless power feeder15 Sep 2026US 12,738,769 B2Daifuku Co., Ltd.
- Article delivery system and method that includes an overhead rail network1 Sep 2026US 12,722,892 B2Tompkins Robotics, Inc.
- Transport system25 Aug 2026US 12,715,481 B2Murata Machinery, Ltd.
- Rail guided carriage system and method for estimating abnormal section of rail guided carriage system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307689 A1Murata Machinery, Ltd.
- Conveying facility with a conveying unit for the suspended transport of transport elements for different types of conveyed items3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257700 A1Ferag AG
- Transport system3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257706 A1Murata Machinery, Ltd.
- Conveying unit for the suspended transport of transport elements for conveyed items and a conveying facility with conveying units3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257864 A1Ferag AG
- Device and transport pocket for rotating, opening, filling and unloading transport elements which are conveyed in a suspended manner, for conveying systems3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257866 A1Ferag AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Smart platooning of vehicles130US 9,940,840 B1X Development LLC · 2018
- Dual-mode transportation system66US 4,791,871 A1988
- Modular transportation system with aerodynamic lift augmented traction vehicles36US 4,841,871 A1989
- Monorail transportation system and vehicle for traveling thereon36US 5,592,883 A1997
- Lift systems with continuous in-rail charging34US 8,978,905 B2Liko Research & Development AB · 2015