B65B 3/26
Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or
Official title: Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or filled
B65B3/26 (Methods or devices for controlling the quantity of the material fed or) appears on 660 US grants and 531 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
- 660
- Published applications
- 531
- Assignees
- 424
- Inventors
- 1,301
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 10 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 11 | 0 |
| 1981 | 8 | 0 |
| 1982 | 8 | 0 |
| 1983 | 8 | 0 |
| 1984 | 10 | 0 |
| 1985 | 13 | 0 |
| 1986 | 12 | 0 |
| 1987 | 13 | 0 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 |
| 1989 | 18 | 0 |
| 1990 | 10 | 0 |
| 1991 | 14 | 0 |
| 1992 | 13 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 12 | 0 |
| 1995 | 10 | 0 |
| 1996 | 12 | 0 |
| 1997 | 6 | 0 |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 10 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 2 |
| 2002 | 12 | 5 |
| 2003 | 7 | 7 |
| 2004 | 7 | 10 |
| 2005 | 4 | 13 |
| 2006 | 13 | 14 |
| 2007 | 6 | 8 |
| 2008 | 3 | 11 |
| 2009 | 5 | 11 |
| 2010 | 3 | 18 |
| 2011 | 5 | 17 |
| 2012 | 7 | 12 |
| 2013 | 15 | 23 |
| 2014 | 20 | 21 |
| 2015 | 15 | 28 |
| 2016 | 23 | 31 |
| 2017 | 24 | 31 |
| 2018 | 25 | 39 |
| 2019 | 19 | 23 |
| 2020 | 29 | 31 |
| 2021 | 37 | 36 |
| 2022 | 28 | 31 |
| 2023 | 26 | 35 |
| 2024 | 25 | 38 |
| 2025 | 28 | 17 |
| 2026 | 20 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Refill station for a dispenser can with a scale for determining a weight information of the dispenser can at a receiving device22 Sep 2026US 12,743,921 B2WüRth International AG
- Method and system for controlling tube orientation in a food packaging system15 Sep 2026US 12,735,218 B2Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S. A.
- Apparatus and method for automatically filling and weighing containers1 Sep 2026US 12,722,817 B2I,M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
- Operating station for a machine for filling and capping cartridges for electronic cigarettes25 Aug 2026US 12,715,639 B2G. D S.p.A.
- Pharmaceutical preparation methods and systems using imaging technologies25 Aug 2026US 12,718,346 B2Equashield Medical Ltd.
- Dispenser unit for aerosol precursor8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305730 A1RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
- Filling Process for Pharmaceutical Compositions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307834 A1Amgen Inc.
- Packaging machine and method for feeding a packaging bag to a conveying device of a packaging machine1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296702 A1HDG-Verpackungsmaschinen GMBH
- Food Assembly And Packaging Robot20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242083 A1Lab 37 LLC
- System and method for filling containers with fluids6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225745 A1Tinnus Enterprises, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vision system to calculate a fluid volume in a container255US 7,499,581 B2ForHealth Technologies, Inc. · 2009
- Fluid dispensing control system132US 4,202,387 A1980
- Continuous liquid stream digital blending system128US 6,186,193 B1Oden Corporation · 2001
- Automated drug delivery bag filling system108US 8,151,835 B2FHT, Inc. · 2012
- Medication dose underfill detection system and application in an automated syringe preparing system102US 7,343,943 B2ForHealth Technologies, Inc. · 2008