B65B 43/46
Using grippers
Official title: using grippers
B65B43/46 (Using grippers) appears on 544 US grants and 618 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
- 544
- Published applications
- 618
- Assignees
- 341
- Inventors
- 1,173
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 6 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 12 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 2 |
| 2002 | 12 | 15 |
| 2003 | 11 | 13 |
| 2004 | 12 | 15 |
| 2005 | 7 | 5 |
| 2006 | 7 | 7 |
| 2007 | 2 | 12 |
| 2008 | 3 | 13 |
| 2009 | 10 | 15 |
| 2010 | 5 | 18 |
| 2011 | 7 | 15 |
| 2012 | 16 | 22 |
| 2013 | 11 | 23 |
| 2014 | 17 | 30 |
| 2015 | 17 | 30 |
| 2016 | 18 | 25 |
| 2017 | 20 | 28 |
| 2018 | 22 | 25 |
| 2019 | 27 | 38 |
| 2020 | 27 | 45 |
| 2021 | 32 | 33 |
| 2022 | 34 | 42 |
| 2023 | 24 | 42 |
| 2024 | 46 | 39 |
| 2025 | 32 | 34 |
| 2026 | 34 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Apparatus for products packaging6 Oct 2026US 12,752,942 B2Heat and Control, Inc.
- Conveying mechanism for packaging machinery and packaging machinery6 Oct 2026US 12,752,951 B2Chengdu Meijindi Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus and method for automatically filling and weighing containers1 Sep 2026US 12,722,817 B2I,M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
- Arrangement and method for transferring a container provided with a container opening1 Sep 2026US 12,722,828 B2TT Innovation AG
- Packaging machine18 Aug 2026US 12,709,429 B2Volpak, S.A.U.
- Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses for Producing and Packaging Medical Fluids8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307835 A1
- Packaging machine and method for feeding a packaging bag to a conveying device of a packaging machine1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296702 A1HDG-Verpackungsmaschinen GMBH
- A container rotating unit and a machine for handling containers including such unit24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285524 A1Tirelli S.r.l.
- Apparatus for filling and closing containers and corresponding method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274481 A1I,M.A. Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.
- Automated medication bagger system, methods, and apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274482 A1Innovation Associates, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of forming and inserting filter elements in cup-shaped containers213US 6,440,256 B1Keurig, Incorporated · 2002
- Automated drug delivery bag filling system108US 8,151,835 B2FHT, Inc. · 2012
- Drug filling machine98US 5,946,883 AKabushiki Kaisha Yuyama Seisakusho · 1999
- Drug filling packaging and labeling machine83US 6,308,494 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Yuyama Seisakusho · 2001
- Method for automatically bagging ice using a timer and multipositional electronic scale78US 5,581,982 APackaged Ice, Inc. · 1996