B66C 7/12
Devices for changing direction of travel or for transferring from one runway
Official title: Devices for changing direction of travel or for transferring from one runway to another; Crossings; Combinations of tracks of different gauges (transfer devices of general application E01B)
B66C7/12 (Devices for changing direction of travel or for transferring from one runway) appears on 30 US grants and 30 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66C- Granted patents
- 30
- Published applications
- 30
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 71
- Latest grant
- 7 Apr 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Cross rail structure for OHT system and OHT system using the same7 Apr 2026US 12,594,977 B2Semes Co., Ltd.
- Substrate transfer device, substrate transfer system and substrate transfer method17 Feb 2026US 12,557,590 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Method for controlling a movement of a load in a workspace of a load transport device9 Dec 2025US 12,492,102 B2Hans Künz GmbH
- Traveling vehicle system15 Oct 2024US 12,116,021 B2Murata Machinery, Ltd.
- Overhead hoist transfer (OHT) apparatus, guiding device of OHT apparatus, and direction maintaining module of OHT apparatus30 Apr 2024US 11,970,373 B2Mirle Automation Corporation
- Rail joints1 May 2025US 2025/0136416 A1Gantry Railing Ltd.
- Substrate transfer device, substrate transfer system and substrate transfer method1 Feb 2024US 2024/0038563 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Cross rail structure for oht system and oht system using the same22 Jun 2023US 2023/0192158 A1Semes Co., Ltd.
- Method for controlling a movement of a load in a workspace of a load transport device8 Jun 2023US 2023/0174349 A1Hans Künz GmbH
- Hoist replacement frame19 May 2022US 2022/0153558 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Port storage and distribution system for international shipping containers93US 7,753,637 B22010
- Conveyor or crane beam of extruded aluminum alloy21US 5,443,151 AGorbel, Inc. · 1995
- Engine unit maintenance complex18US 4,395,180 AWestmont Industries · 1983
- Overhead conveyance device and overhead conveyance vehicle13US 6,530,466 B2Shinko Electric Co., Ltd. · 2003
- Arrangement for connecting two rail segments13US 9,776,836 B2Terex MHPS GmbH · 2017