B65G 43/00
Control devices
Official title: Control devices, e.g. for safety, warning or fault-correcting
B65G43/00 (Control devices) appears on 2,764 US grants and 3,018 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
- 2,764
- Published applications
- 3,018
- Assignees
- 1,428
- Inventors
- 6,133
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 15 | 0 |
| 1977 | 10 | 0 |
| 1978 | 12 | 0 |
| 1979 | 6 | 0 |
| 1980 | 13 | 0 |
| 1981 | 7 | 0 |
| 1982 | 9 | 0 |
| 1983 | 13 | 0 |
| 1984 | 23 | 0 |
| 1985 | 10 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 14 | 0 |
| 1988 | 12 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 7 | 0 |
| 1991 | 18 | 0 |
| 1992 | 22 | 0 |
| 1993 | 12 | 0 |
| 1994 | 22 | 0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 0 |
| 1996 | 14 | 0 |
| 1997 | 15 | 0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 0 |
| 1999 | 13 | 0 |
| 2000 | 17 | 0 |
| 2001 | 17 | 8 |
| 2002 | 27 | 28 |
| 2003 | 26 | 24 |
| 2004 | 34 | 31 |
| 2005 | 18 | 31 |
| 2006 | 29 | 31 |
| 2007 | 21 | 27 |
| 2008 | 14 | 28 |
| 2009 | 17 | 45 |
| 2010 | 23 | 46 |
| 2011 | 32 | 33 |
| 2012 | 41 | 50 |
| 2013 | 28 | 65 |
| 2014 | 51 | 98 |
| 2015 | 92 | 116 |
| 2016 | 116 | 122 |
| 2017 | 120 | 122 |
| 2018 | 132 | 170 |
| 2019 | 169 | 183 |
| 2020 | 191 | 223 |
| 2021 | 167 | 251 |
| 2022 | 183 | 282 |
| 2023 | 182 | 250 |
| 2024 | 260 | 327 |
| 2025 | 231 | 249 |
| 2026 | 213 | 178 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65G 43/08Control devices operated by article or material being fed, conveyed or discharged1,352
- B65G 43/10Sequence control of conveyors operating in combination482
- B65G 43/02Detecting dangerous physical condition of load carriers465
- B65G 43/06Interrupting the drive in case of driving element breakage56
- B65G 43/04Detecting slip between driving element and load-carrier51
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