B67C 7/0086
Sterilisation being restricted to the area of application of the closure
Official title: {Sterilisation being restricted to the area of application of the closure}
B67C7/0086 (Sterilisation being restricted to the area of application of the closure) appears on 26 US grants and 29 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B67C- Granted patents
- 26
- Published applications
- 29
- Assignees
- 18
- Inventors
- 48
- Latest grant
- 24 Feb 2026
Filings by year
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| 2014 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2017 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for replacing air within a container head space34US 4,602,473 AMitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1986
- Method and apparatus for filling bottles or the like with liquid27US 4,655,029 AKrones AG Herman Kronseder Maschinenfabrik · 1987
- Container closing machine20US 4,729,204 AKrones AG Hermann Kronseder Maschinenfabrik · 1988
- Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, having a container handling machine with interchangeable receptacles for the container mouth14US 7,121,062 B2KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG · 2006
- Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, a beverage container filling machine, and a beverage container closing machine11US 7,165,582 B2KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AG · 2007