B65G 47/00
Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors
Official title: Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
B65G47/00 (Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors) appears on 13,261 US grants and 10,422 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
- 13,261
- Published applications
- 10,422
- Assignees
- 5,176
- Inventors
- 20,973
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 191 | 0 |
| 1977 | 175 | 0 |
| 1978 | 136 | 0 |
| 1979 | 114 | 0 |
| 1980 | 116 | 0 |
| 1981 | 140 | 0 |
| 1982 | 120 | 0 |
| 1983 | 118 | 0 |
| 1984 | 160 | 0 |
| 1985 | 161 | 0 |
| 1986 | 164 | 0 |
| 1987 | 190 | 0 |
| 1988 | 188 | 0 |
| 1989 | 213 | 0 |
| 1990 | 186 | 0 |
| 1991 | 198 | 0 |
| 1992 | 207 | 0 |
| 1993 | 180 | 0 |
| 1994 | 175 | 0 |
| 1995 | 167 | 0 |
| 1996 | 158 | 0 |
| 1997 | 176 | 0 |
| 1998 | 163 | 0 |
| 1999 | 203 | 0 |
| 2000 | 196 | 0 |
| 2001 | 271 | 59 |
| 2002 | 236 | 188 |
| 2003 | 230 | 228 |
| 2004 | 196 | 239 |
| 2005 | 169 | 221 |
| 2006 | 159 | 222 |
| 2007 | 159 | 222 |
| 2008 | 141 | 230 |
| 2009 | 148 | 258 |
| 2010 | 201 | 283 |
| 2011 | 200 | 254 |
| 2012 | 179 | 263 |
| 2013 | 223 | 314 |
| 2014 | 316 | 388 |
| 2015 | 353 | 375 |
| 2016 | 406 | 411 |
| 2017 | 394 | 428 |
| 2018 | 440 | 496 |
| 2019 | 535 | 632 |
| 2020 | 576 | 743 |
| 2021 | 604 | 760 |
| 2022 | 598 | 708 |
| 2023 | 575 | 703 |
| 2024 | 707 | 755 |
| 2025 | 630 | 591 |
| 2026 | 420 | 451 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65G 47/74Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types6,235
- B65G 47/22Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit3,357
- B65G 47/52Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding2,874
- B65G 47/02Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors2,481
- B65G 47/34Devices for discharging articles or materials from conveyor1,739
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Modular wafer transport and processing system655US 4,917,556 AVarian Associates, Inc. · 1990
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- Track-type sortation system234US 6,762,382 B1Innovative Picking Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Divert apparatus for conveyor system199US 6,401,936 B1Siemens ElectroCom, L.P. · 2002