B65G 47/91
Incorporating pneumatic
Official title: incorporating pneumatic, e.g. suction, grippers
B65G47/91 (Incorporating pneumatic) appears on 1,399 US grants and 1,382 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
- 1,399
- Published applications
- 1,382
- Assignees
- 827
- Inventors
- 3,010
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 10 | 0 |
| 1977 | 7 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 9 | 0 |
| 1985 | 15 | 0 |
| 1986 | 13 | 0 |
| 1987 | 21 | 0 |
| 1988 | 13 | 0 |
| 1989 | 17 | 0 |
| 1990 | 12 | 0 |
| 1991 | 14 | 0 |
| 1992 | 14 | 0 |
| 1993 | 18 | 0 |
| 1994 | 9 | 0 |
| 1995 | 9 | 0 |
| 1996 | 13 | 0 |
| 1997 | 16 | 0 |
| 1998 | 13 | 0 |
| 1999 | 18 | 0 |
| 2000 | 21 | 0 |
| 2001 | 22 | 9 |
| 2002 | 28 | 11 |
| 2003 | 11 | 16 |
| 2004 | 11 | 21 |
| 2005 | 13 | 19 |
| 2006 | 15 | 14 |
| 2007 | 14 | 19 |
| 2008 | 11 | 27 |
| 2009 | 10 | 20 |
| 2010 | 18 | 25 |
| 2011 | 12 | 15 |
| 2012 | 16 | 27 |
| 2013 | 19 | 25 |
| 2014 | 17 | 25 |
| 2015 | 18 | 48 |
| 2016 | 32 | 53 |
| 2017 | 43 | 57 |
| 2018 | 57 | 67 |
| 2019 | 78 | 92 |
| 2020 | 84 | 135 |
| 2021 | 101 | 143 |
| 2022 | 110 | 123 |
| 2023 | 95 | 108 |
| 2024 | 121 | 110 |
| 2025 | 92 | 103 |
| 2026 | 66 | 70 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65G 47/918With at least two picking-up heads278
- B65G 47/917Control arrangements264
- B65G 47/912Provided with drive systems with rectilinear movements only140
- B65G 47/914Provided with drive systems incorporating rotary and rectilinear movements134
- B65G 47/915Provided with drive systems with rotary movements only104
- B65G 47/911With air blasts producing partial vacuum81
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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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