D05C 15/145
Needle plates
Official title: {Needle plates}
D05C15/145 (Needle plates) appears on 24 US grants and 13 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D05C- Granted patents
- 24
- Published applications
- 13
- Assignees
- 4
- Inventors
- 21
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Narrow gauge hollow needle improvement14 Jul 2026US 12,680,208 B2Tuftco Corporation
- Tufting machine and method of tufting22 Jul 2025US 12,366,021 B2Card-Monroe Corp.
- Tufting machine and method of tufting6 Aug 2024US 12,054,868 B2Card-Monroe Corp.
- Optimized backing shifter for variable or multi-gauge tufting31 Oct 2023US 11,802,359 B2Tuftco Corporation
- System and method for tufting sculptured and multiple pile height patterned articles15 Aug 2023US 11,725,320 B2Card-Monroe Corp.
- Tufting machine and method of tufting16 Oct 2025US 2025/0320646 A1
- Tufting machine and method of tufting10 Oct 2024US 2024/0337056 A1Card-Monroe Corp.
- Narrow Gauge Hollow Needle Improvement9 May 2024US 2024/0150949 A1Tuftco Corporation
- Tufting machine and method of tufting22 Dec 2022US 2022/0403577 A1Card-Monroe Corp.
- System and Method for Tufting Sculptured and Multiple Pile Height Patterned Articles20 Jan 2022US 2022/0018049 A1Card-Monroe Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Computer controlled tufting machine and a process of controlling the parameters of operation of a tufting machine68US 4,867,080 ACard-Monroe Corp. · 1989
- Computer controlled tufting machine and a process of controlling the parameters of operation of a tufting machine65US 4,981,091 ACard-Monroe Corp. · 1991
- Computer controlled tufting machine and a process of controlling the parameters of operation of a tufting machine63US 5,005,498 ACard-Monroe Corp. · 1991
- Needle plate for double needle bar loop pile tufting apparatus61US 4,841,886 ATuftco Corporation · 1989
- Needle plate finger comb for tufting machines30US 4,548,140 ASpencer Wright Industries, Inc. · 1985