B65H 2553/40
Sensing or detecting means: using optical
Official title: using optical, e.g. photographic, elements
B65H2553/40 (Sensing or detecting means: using optical) appears on 1,471 US grants and 1,434 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 1,471
- Published applications
- 1,434
- Assignees
- 570
- Inventors
- 3,365
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 61 | 74 |
| 2025 | 69 | 75 |
| 2026 | 48 | 48 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Sheet conveying apparatus and printer29 Sep 2026US 12,747,123 B2Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
- Sheet conveyance apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus22 Sep 2026US 12,741,838 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Automated yarn package handling system and method22 Sep 2026US 12,742,264 B2Belmont Textile Machinery Co., Inc.
- Sheet storage apparatus and image forming system including the same8 Sep 2026US 12,729,082 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Sheet processing apparatus, image forming system, and storage medium18 Aug 2026US 12,709,510 B2Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296819 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Recording medium accommodating device and image forming apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299491 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301354 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Automatic document feeder and automatic document feeding method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285630 A1Etria Co., Ltd.
- Device and method for processing continuous cardboard web24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285634 A1HOMAG Automation GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for registration control of assembled components147US 5,359,525 AKimberly-Clark Corporation · 1994
- Two dimensional object position sensor145US 6,476,376 B1Xerox Corporation · 2002
- Sensing apparatus for detecting and determining the width of media along a feed path145US 9,219,836 B2Datamax-O'Neil Corporation · 2015
- Strip chart recorder paper attribute detector and monitor105US 5,442,188 AGould Instruments Systems, Inc. · 1995
- Means for determining difference in copy sheet transportation states for an electrostatic reproduction machine101US 4,166,615 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1979