Lifting, gripping, or carrying means, for one or more sheets forming independent
Official title: {Lifting, gripping, or carrying means, for one or more sheets forming independent means of transport, e.g. suction cups, transport frames (suction means as load-engaging elements attached to the lifting or lowering gear of cranes B66C1/02; suction cups for attaching purposes F16B47/00; suction cups on gripping heads B25J15/0616; suction cups in general B65G47/91; suction cups combined with cutting means on vertical conveyors C03B33/00 - C03B33/10; devices for turning sheets B65G49/067; suspending devices B65G49/066)}
B65G49/061 (Lifting, gripping, or carrying means, for one or more sheets forming independent) appears on 299 US grants and 359 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
- 299
- Published applications
- 359
- Assignees
- 211
- Inventors
- 806
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 10 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
- Method and apparatus for substrate transfer and processing97US 6,213,704 B1Applied Komatsu Technology, Inc. · 2001
- Twist-cam suction cup assembly83US 5,087,005 A1992
- Vacuum adsorption hand66US 4,828,304 AKabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha · 1989
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