B65F 3/00
Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse
Official title: Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse (vehicles in general B60; driving vehicle equipment or auxiliaries B60K; discharging contents by tilting entire vehicles B65G; wheeled apparatus for emptying sewers or cesspools E03F7/10)
B65F3/00 (Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse) appears on 1,404 US grants and 1,194 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65F- Granted patents
- 1,404
- Published applications
- 1,194
- Assignees
- 387
- Inventors
- 1,508
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 21 | 0 |
| 1977 | 24 | 0 |
| 1978 | 25 | 0 |
| 1979 | 11 | 0 |
| 1980 | 11 | 0 |
| 1981 | 15 | 0 |
| 1982 | 10 | 0 |
| 1983 | 11 | 0 |
| 1984 | 17 | 0 |
| 1985 | 12 | 0 |
| 1986 | 8 | 0 |
| 1987 | 19 | 0 |
| 1988 | 12 | 0 |
| 1989 | 14 | 0 |
| 1990 | 21 | 0 |
| 1991 | 48 | 0 |
| 1992 | 19 | 0 |
| 1993 | 36 | 0 |
| 1994 | 27 | 0 |
| 1995 | 27 | 0 |
| 1996 | 28 | 0 |
| 1997 | 21 | 0 |
| 1998 | 46 | 0 |
| 1999 | 29 | 0 |
| 2000 | 28 | 0 |
| 2001 | 24 | 6 |
| 2002 | 25 | 21 |
| 2003 | 18 | 26 |
| 2004 | 20 | 23 |
| 2005 | 12 | 29 |
| 2006 | 21 | 24 |
| 2007 | 12 | 17 |
| 2008 | 11 | 30 |
| 2009 | 15 | 18 |
| 2010 | 15 | 15 |
| 2011 | 10 | 20 |
| 2012 | 11 | 18 |
| 2013 | 16 | 23 |
| 2014 | 23 | 32 |
| 2015 | 24 | 27 |
| 2016 | 25 | 43 |
| 2017 | 33 | 50 |
| 2018 | 35 | 36 |
| 2019 | 52 | 63 |
| 2020 | 50 | 61 |
| 2021 | 50 | 68 |
| 2022 | 57 | 74 |
| 2023 | 62 | 113 |
| 2024 | 91 | 108 |
| 2025 | 89 | 137 |
| 2026 | 63 | 112 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65F 3/02Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse: with means for discharging refuse receptacles930
- B65F 3/14Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse: with devices for charging, distributing or348
- B65F 3/24Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse: with devices for unloading the tank252
- B65F 3/001Vehicles particularly adapted for collecting refuse: for segregated refuse collecting166
- B65F 2003/006Constructional features relating to the tank of the refuse vehicleIndexing code67
- B65F 3/005Hand-operated refuse vehicles12
Recent patents
- Waste collection management apparatus and method, a waste collection vehicle, and a method for analyzing waste29 Sep 2026US 12,747,097 B2Lixo
- Battery placement for electric refuse vehicle22 Sep 2026US 12,741,562 B2Oshkosh Corporation
- Refuse vehicle with an automatically ejecting pack panel22 Sep 2026US 12,741,808 B2Oshkosh Corporation
- Refuse collection drone15 Sep 2026US 12,735,251 B2Oshkosh Corporation
- Bi-stable band actuator8 Sep 2026US 12,729,057 B2The Heil Co.
- Battery placement for electrified vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296259 A1Oshkosh Corporation
- Hydraulic system for a refuse vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296342 A1Oshkosh Corporation
- Alignment warning system for a refuse vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296777 A1Oshkosh Corporation
- Refuse vehicle with assisted lift assembly1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296778 A1Oshkosh Corporation
- Connecting a refuse body to a refuse collection vehicle24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285160 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Tracking system567US 5,014,206 AFaciliTech International Incorporated · 1991
- Equipment service vehicle with network-assisted vehicle service and repair395US 6,993,421 B2Oshkosh Truck Corporation · 2006
- Control system and method for electric vehicle349US 6,885,920 B2Oshkosh Truck Corporation · 2005
- Equipment service vehicle with remote monitoring344US 7,184,866 B2Oshkosh Truck Corporation · 2007
- Military vehicle having cooperative control network with distributed I/O interfacing285US 6,421,593 B1Pierce Manufacturing Company · 2002