D05B 87/00
Needle- or looper- threading devices
Official title: Needle- {or looper-} threading devices
D05B87/00 (Needle- or looper- threading devices) appears on 168 US grants and 104 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D05B- Granted patents
- 168
- Published applications
- 104
- Assignees
- 37
- Inventors
- 181
- Latest grant
- 18 Nov 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 7 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 11 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 | 2 | 5 |
| 2004 | 7 | 13 |
| 2005 | 11 | 4 |
| 2006 | 7 | 7 |
| 2007 | 5 | 7 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 |
| 2012 | 4 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9 |
| 2016 | 5 | 7 |
| 2017 | 7 | 3 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 3 | 6 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Device for assisting with threading the eye of a needle18 Nov 2025US 12,473,678 B2Materiel pour l'Arboriculture Fruitiere
- Needle-threading device for sewing machine and sewing machine equipped with said device22 Apr 2025US 12,281,424 B2Janome Corporation
- Apparatuses including support and accessory arms for positioning a sewing machine accessory5 Nov 2024US 12,134,847 B2Singer Sourcing Limited LLC
- Needle threader and needle threading mechanism7 May 2024US 11,976,399 B2Clover Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Sewing machine12 Dec 2023US 11,840,786 B2Janome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.
- Device for assisting with threading the eye of a needle1 May 2025US 2025/0137180 A1Materiel Pour L'arboriculture Fruiterre
- Sewing machine5 Dec 2024US 2024/0401257 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Needle-threading device for sewing machine and sewing machine equipped with said device20 Jun 2024US 2024/0200250 A1Janome Corporation
- Apparatuses including support and accessory arms for positioning a sewing machine accessory22 Feb 2024US 2024/0060224 A1Singer Sourcing Limited LLC
- Needle threader and needle threading mechanism18 May 2023US 2023/0151522 A1Clover Mfg. Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sewing needle with easy-threading filament loop30US 4,667,860 AFeuerman Research & Development Corporation · 1987
- Needle threader29US 4,102,478 A1978
- Sewing machine with an automatic threader23US 4,651,660 ABrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1987
- Threading machine of a sewing machine and a threading method17US 5,327,841 ASuzuki Manufacturing, Ltd. · 1994
- Needle threading device used in sewing machine16US 6,067,919 ABrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 2000