B66B 17/16
For loading and unloading mining-hoist cars or cages
Official title: for loading and unloading mining-hoist cars or cages
B66B17/16 (For loading and unloading mining-hoist cars or cages) appears on 17 US grants and 16 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66B- Granted patents
- 17
- Published applications
- 16
- Assignees
- 14
- Inventors
- 57
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
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| 2021 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Autonomous driving vehicle operation system10 Feb 2026US 12,547,185 B2Robo-Hi Corporation
- Elevator calling coordination for robots and individuals16 Dec 2025US 12,497,263 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Method and elevator arrangement23 Sep 2025US 12,421,082 B2Kone Corporation
- Method and a system for conveying a robot in an elevator8 Jul 2025US 12,353,215 B2Metralabs GmbH Neue Technologien Und Systeme
- Method and arrangement28 May 2024US 11,993,482 B2Kone Corporation
- Freight elevator pallet rack system13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233974 A1Otis Elevator Company
- Autonomous driving vehicle operation system14 May 2026US 2026/0133589 A1Robo-Hi Corporation
- Robot and robot control method13 Nov 2025US 2025/0348081 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Elevator system and elevator car assignment method24 Apr 2025US 2025/0128910 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Autonomous driving vehicle operation system11 Jul 2024US 2024/0231387 A1Zmp Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automatic storage and retrieval apparatus41US 5,018,926 A1991
- Elevator platform structure22US 4,063,619 A1977
- Automatic drawbridge for elevator5US 4,302,145 AThe Peelle Company · 1981
- Bridging apparatus4US 9,932,171 B12018
- Elevator control device and autonomous moving body control device3US 11,897,727 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation · 2024