B65G 47/92
Incorporating electrostatic or magnetic grippers
Official title: incorporating electrostatic or magnetic grippers
B65G47/92 (Incorporating electrostatic or magnetic grippers) appears on 120 US grants and 134 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
- 120
- Published applications
- 134
- Assignees
- 106
- Inventors
- 300
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 14 | 11 |
| 2025 | 8 | 4 |
| 2026 | 6 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Servocontrolled magnetic gripping device59US 6,663,154 B2Famatec S.R.L. · 2003
- Magnetic vacuum gripper including inflatable bellows35US 7,086,675 B2Goudsmit Magnetic Systems BV · 2006
- Metal cutting machine with cut piece pickup and transport magnets26US 4,372,538 AC-R-O, Inc. · 1983
- Gripper apparatus24US 9,308,650 B2J. Schmalz GmbH · 2016
- Electromagnetic gripper assembly22US 4,667,998 ARobohand, Inc. · 1987