B66C 1/0231
Special lip configurations
Official title: {Special lip configurations}
B66C1/0231 (Special lip configurations) appears on 44 US grants and 26 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66C- Granted patents
- 44
- Published applications
- 26
- Assignees
- 35
- Inventors
- 61
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
Filings by year
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| 2021 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vacuum gripper10 Feb 2026US 12,544,881 B2
- Vacuum gripper17 Jun 2025US 12,330,271 B2Nemo Power Tools Ltd.
- End effector device and system for suction-based grasping of bagged objects10 Sep 2024US 12,083,669 B2Ambi Robotics, Inc.
- End effector device and system for suction-based grasping of bagged objects10 Sep 2024US 12,083,670 B2Ambi Robotics, Inc.
- Vacuum gripper4 Jun 2024US 11,999,030 B2Nemo Power Tools Ltd.
- Vacuum gripper26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084267 A1Grabo LTD
- Suction cup comprising a lip having in a rim portion a polymeric material of reduced hardness27 Nov 2025US 2025/0360633 A1
- End effector device and system for suction-based grasping of bagged objects13 Mar 2025US 2025/0083335 A1Ambi Robotics, Inc.
- End effector device and system for suction-based grasping of bagged objects13 Mar 2025US 2025/0083336 A1Ambi Robotics, Inc.
- Vacuum gripper22 Aug 2024US 2024/0278388 A1Nemo Power Tools Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- End effector81US 4,561,686 A1985
- Pickup method and apparatus56US 4,121,865 A1978
- Vacuum cup construction54US 4,852,926 A1989
- Bernoulli pickup head with self-restoring anti-tilt improvement45US 4,029,351 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1977
- Vacuum gripper36US 6,382,692 B1J. Schmalz GmbH · 2002