D03D 51/00
Driving, starting, or stopping arrangements
Official title: Driving, starting, or stopping arrangements; Automatic stop motions {(loom control associated with fabric inspection on the loom D03J1/007)}
D03D51/00 (Driving, starting, or stopping arrangements) appears on 455 US grants and 115 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D03D- Granted patents
- 455
- Published applications
- 115
- Assignees
- 159
- Inventors
- 562
- Latest grant
- 24 Feb 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 4 | 11 |
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| 2007 | 6 | 1 |
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| 2009 | 0 | 6 |
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| 2024 | 6 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- D03D 51/18Automatic stop motions210
- D03D 51/06Driving, starting, or stopping arrangements: using particular methods of stopping98
- D03D 51/02General arrangements of driving mechanism62
- D03D 51/007Loom optimisation53
- D03D 51/002Avoiding starting marks28
- D03D 51/005Independent drive motors27
- D03D 51/12Driving, starting, or stopping arrangements: for adjusting speed16
- D03D 51/14Driving, starting, or stopping arrangements: for reducing speed temporarily3
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Drive mechanism77US 4,287,808 ANational Research Development Corporation · 1981
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