B65H 7/02
Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of
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B65H7/02 (Controlling article feeding, separating, pile-advancing, or associated apparatus, to take account of) appears on 3,288 US grants and 3,120 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 3,288
- Published applications
- 3,120
- Assignees
- 529
- Inventors
- 5,261
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 17 | 0 |
| 1977 | 13 | 0 |
| 1978 | 17 | 0 |
| 1979 | 14 | 0 |
| 1980 | 13 | 0 |
| 1981 | 17 | 0 |
| 1982 | 13 | 0 |
| 1983 | 21 | 0 |
| 1984 | 19 | 0 |
| 1985 | 23 | 0 |
| 1986 | 22 | 0 |
| 1987 | 28 | 0 |
| 1988 | 25 | 0 |
| 1989 | 29 | 0 |
| 1990 | 30 | 0 |
| 1991 | 28 | 0 |
| 1992 | 41 | 0 |
| 1993 | 37 | 0 |
| 1994 | 26 | 0 |
| 1995 | 18 | 0 |
| 1996 | 23 | 0 |
| 1997 | 26 | 0 |
| 1998 | 13 | 0 |
| 1999 | 34 | 0 |
| 2000 | 42 | 0 |
| 2001 | 32 | 10 |
| 2002 | 28 | 26 |
| 2003 | 37 | 46 |
| 2004 | 42 | 61 |
| 2005 | 26 | 58 |
| 2006 | 42 | 57 |
| 2007 | 34 | 55 |
| 2008 | 39 | 63 |
| 2009 | 48 | 102 |
| 2010 | 79 | 123 |
| 2011 | 89 | 149 |
| 2012 | 115 | 115 |
| 2013 | 164 | 145 |
| 2014 | 189 | 170 |
| 2015 | 166 | 200 |
| 2016 | 158 | 176 |
| 2017 | 166 | 171 |
| 2018 | 167 | 181 |
| 2019 | 172 | 208 |
| 2020 | 135 | 191 |
| 2021 | 131 | 177 |
| 2022 | 156 | 170 |
| 2023 | 140 | 139 |
| 2024 | 124 | 136 |
| 2025 | 131 | 116 |
| 2026 | 89 | 75 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Paper feeding device including multi-tray and paper feeding cassette and image forming apparatus having the same6 Oct 2026US 12,753,032 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Medium processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system6 Oct 2026US 12,753,040 B2Richoh Company, Ltd.
- Medium transport device and image reading device22 Sep 2026US 12,741,837 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Sheet conveyance apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus22 Sep 2026US 12,741,838 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Sheet conveyance device15 Sep 2026US 12,735,286 B2Riso Kagaku Corporation
- Media feeding apparatus, media feeding method, and non-transitory recording medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296815 A1Pfu Limited
- Paper sheet transport device and paper sheet handling device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303741 A1
- Control method, processing device, and non-transitory recording medium24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285628 A1Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
- Conveying device, image forming apparatus, and curl corrector24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285629 A1Etria Co., Ltd.
- Automatic document feeder and automatic document feeding method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285630 A1Etria Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer controlled inspector/printer document inspection177US 4,250,806 AThe Perkin-Elmer Corporation · 1981
- Pressure and force profile sensor and method for detecting pressure127US 6,044,717 AXerox Corporation · 2000
- Apparatus and method for combined deskewing and side registering116US 4,971,304 AXerox Corporation · 1990
- Document processing, jam detecting apparatus and process111US 4,151,410 ABurroughs Corporation · 1979
- Means for determining difference in copy sheet transportation states for an electrostatic reproduction machine101US 4,166,615 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1979