B66C 13/10
For preventing cable slack
Official title: for preventing cable slack (control devices for rope, cable, or chain winding mechanisms, e.g. for controlling tensions, B66D1/40)
B66C13/10 (For preventing cable slack) appears on 47 US grants and 41 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66C- Granted patents
- 47
- Published applications
- 41
- Assignees
- 46
- Inventors
- 111
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2006 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2011 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2017 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 |
| 2020 | 5 | 7 |
| 2021 | 0 | 5 |
| 2022 | 9 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 |
| 2026 | 4 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Heave compensator enabling active heave counteraction15 Sep 2026US 12,735,302 B2Ernst-B. Johansen AS
- Gripping device30 Jun 2026US 12,668,421 B2Ocado Innovation Limited
- Crane cable and hose management9 Jun 2026US 12,649,643 B2Knight Industries & Associates, Inc.
- Lifting gear, and method for determining slack rope on the lifting gear21 Apr 2026US 12,606,422 B2Liebherr-Werk Biberach GmbH
- Coupling for suspended load control apparatus, system, and method4 Nov 2025US 12,459,789 B2Vita Inclinata IP Holdings LLC
- Lifting gear and method for starting up the lifting mechanism of such a lifting gear19 Jun 2025US 2025/0197172 A1Liebherr-Werk Biberach GmbH
- Sheave device retracting and unfolding method22 May 2025US 2025/0162846 A1Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Crane cable and hose management26 Dec 2024US 2024/0425329 A1Knight Industries & Associates, Inc.
- Gripping device1 Feb 2024US 2024/0034558 A1Ocado Innovation Limited
- Lifting gear, and method for determining slack rope on the lifting gear7 Dec 2023US 2023/0391588 A1Liebherr-Werk Biberach Bmbh
Most cited
By later US patents
- Lifting apparatus including overload sensing device45US 5,662,311 AHarnischfeger Corporation · 1997
- Crane claw tilt sensing and recovery36US 5,358,219 A1994
- Transfer of fuel assemblies24US 4,487,741 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1984
- Coupling for suspended load control apparatus, system, and method20US 11,339,034 B2Vita Inclinata Technologies, Inc. · 2022
- Slack cable sensing apparatus18US 4,305,513 ARenner Manufacturing Company · 1981