B65G 47/34
Devices for discharging articles or materials from conveyor
Official title: Devices for discharging articles or materials from conveyor (B65G47/256 takes precedence)
B65G47/34 (Devices for discharging articles or materials from conveyor) appears on 1,739 US grants and 1,464 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
- 3,082
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 22 | 0 |
| 1977 | 16 | 0 |
| 1978 | 10 | 0 |
| 1979 | 8 | 0 |
| 1980 | 14 | 0 |
| 1981 | 15 | 0 |
| 1982 | 14 | 0 |
| 1983 | 11 | 0 |
| 1984 | 12 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 22 | 0 |
| 1998 | 20 | 0 |
| 1999 | 14 | 0 |
| 2000 | 19 | 0 |
| 2001 | 33 | 7 |
| 2002 | 22 | 17 |
| 2003 | 34 | 41 |
| 2004 | 33 | 21 |
| 2005 | 15 | 29 |
| 2006 | 14 | 26 |
| 2007 | 19 | 25 |
| 2008 | 15 | 27 |
| 2009 | 15 | 15 |
| 2010 | 18 | 34 |
| 2011 | 23 | 43 |
| 2012 | 21 | 27 |
| 2013 | 36 | 42 |
| 2014 | 49 | 73 |
| 2015 | 63 | 50 |
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| 2017 | 66 | 58 |
| 2018 | 61 | 84 |
| 2019 | 87 | 87 |
| 2020 | 84 | 109 |
| 2021 | 102 | 112 |
| 2022 | 86 | 101 |
| 2023 | 89 | 109 |
| 2024 | 112 | 116 |
| 2025 | 95 | 79 |
| 2026 | 61 | 74 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Apparatus and method for storing articles6 Oct 2026US 12,753,024 B2G. D S.p.A.
- Methods and arrangements for identifying and sorting items29 Sep 2026US 12,746,577 B1Dmrc LLC
- Liner system, and unload stacking assembly and method therefor29 Sep 2026US 12,747,112 B2Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
- Object transport apparatus and method29 Sep 2026US 12,747,113 B2Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Automated problem solve workflows for shuttle rail systems8 Sep 2026US 12,729,071 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Ejection System for Laminated Material Stacker1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296793 A1European Machinery Engineering Projects, S.L.
- System and method for automated parcel loading and transport1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299621 A1FORTNA Systems, Inc.
- Variable-capacity store24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283223 A1G. D S.p.A.
- Logical relocation of sort destinations24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284707 A1Tompkins Robotics, Inc.
- Conveyor system and associated methods24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285616 A1Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Detection and reconstruction of an environment to facilitate robotic interaction with the environment318US 9,102,055 B1Industrial Perception, Inc. · 2015
- Track-type sortation system234US 6,762,382 B1Innovative Picking Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Methods and systems for recognizing machine-readable information on three-dimensional objects173US 9,227,323 B1Google Inc. · 2016
- Article sorting system and method158US 6,688,459 B1Hytrol Conveyor Company, Inc. · 2004
- Feeding system and method for placing a plurality of objects on a tray of an automated sorting system151US 6,323,452 B1United Parcel Service of America, Inc. · 2001