D04B 15/14
Needle cylinders
D04B15/14 (Needle cylinders) appears on 88 US grants and 48 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D04B- Granted patents
- 88
- Published applications
- 48
- Assignees
- 46
- Inventors
- 108
- Latest grant
- 17 Feb 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 5 | 4 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 |
| 2011 | 5 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 5 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 4 |
| 2022 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Knitting system and needle for knitting machines17 Feb 2026US 12,553,162 B2Groz-Beckert KG
- Drive chain for stitch formation members of a circular knitting machine and a circular knitting machine comprising such drive chain20 Jan 2026US 12,529,173 B2Santoni S.P.A.
- Drive chain for stitch formation members of a circular knitting machine and a circular knitting machine comprising such drive chain30 Sep 2025US 12,428,760 B2Santoni S.P.A.
- Needle-holding unit for a circular knitting machine17 Sep 2024US 12,091,787 B2Santoni S.P.A.
- Removal device for removing a knitted tubular manufacture from a circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like17 Sep 2024US 12,091,789 B2Lonati S. P. A.
- A drive chain for stitch formation members of a circular knitting machine and a circular knitting machine comprising such drive chain10 Jul 2025US 2025/0223739 A1Santoni S.P.A.
- A drive chain for stitch formation members of a circular knitting machine and a circular knitting machine comprising such drive chain2 Jan 2025US 2025/0003121 A1Santoni S.P.A.
- Knitting system and needle for knitting machines24 Oct 2024US 2024/0352635 A1Groz-Beckert KG
- Removal device for removing a knitted tubular manufacture from a circular knitting machine for hosiery or the like8 Feb 2024US 2024/0044055 A1Lonati S. P. A.
- Process to close an end of a tubular manufactured article directly on hosiery and knitwear circular machines and respective circular machine23 Feb 2023US 2023/0056303 A1Sgm Automazioni S.R.L.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Medical stents for body lumens exhibiting peristaltic motion244US 5,876,445 ABoston Scientific Corporation · 1999
- Medical stents for body lumens exhibiting peristaltic motion110US 6,305,436 B1SciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 2001
- Woven tubular gasket with continuous integral attachment means32US 4,822,060 AThe Bentley-Harris Manufacturing Company · 1989
- Circular knitting machine, particularly for producing items of clothing with three-dimensional shapes32US 7,207,196 B2Santoni S.P.A. · 2007
- Hosiery toe portion and method of manufacturing the same18US 6,000,247 ATakeda Leg Wear Co., Ltd. · 1999