B65G 47/94
Devices for flexing or tilting travelling structures
Official title: Devices for flexing or tilting travelling structures; Throw-off carriages
B65G47/94 (Devices for flexing or tilting travelling structures) appears on 535 US grants and 427 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 427
- Assignees
- 244
- Inventors
- 803
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 35 | 48 |
| 2024 | 47 | 45 |
| 2025 | 25 | 35 |
| 2026 | 23 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Vehicle and material handler22 Sep 2026US 12,741,829 B2Tompkins Robotics, Inc.
- Tilt tray sorter15 Sep 2026US 12,735,275 B2Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC
- Sorting vehicle and sorting machine1 Sep 2026US 12,722,900 B2Beijing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co., Ltd.
- Cross-belt sorter1 Sep 2026US 12,722,909 B2Eurosort B.V.
- Three-dimensional unloading system capable of unloading goods into container and control method of three-dimensional unloading system30 Jun 2026US 12,668,423 B2Zhejiang Libiao Robotics Co., Ltd.
- Vertical Sorter13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233945 A1Interroll Holding AG
- Liner for Material Handling System And Method13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233951 A1
- Omnichannel sortation system23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208954 A1Dematic Corp.
- Robotic merge induction23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208974 A1
- Robotic put wall systems and methods with mobile destination location assemblies16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200676 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sorter tilt mechanism184US 4,846,335 ADominion Chain Inc. · 1989
- Direct transfer sorting system180US 4,895,242 AG B Instruments, Inc. · 1990
- Belt-carried tilt tray sorter156US 5,839,566 AUnited Parcel Service of America, Inc. · 1998
- 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
- Drive mechanism143US 4,759,439 ADominion Chain Inc. · 1988