D06F 21/06
About a vertical axis
Official title: about a vertical axis
D06F21/06 (About a vertical axis) appears on 75 US grants and 97 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D06F- Granted patents
- 75
- Published applications
- 97
- Assignees
- 23
- Inventors
- 189
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2014 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 5 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 10 |
| 2017 | 2 | 6 |
| 2018 | 3 | 12 |
| 2019 | 6 | 10 |
| 2020 | 8 | 13 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9 |
| 2022 | 9 | 5 |
| 2023 | 8 | 5 |
| 2024 | 3 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Laundry washing machine with removable agitator25 Aug 2026US 12,716,155 B2Wuxi Little Swan Electric Co., Ltd.
- Laundry washing machine with spiral variable length agitator24 Mar 2026US 12,584,257 B2Midea Group Co., Ltd.
- Laundry appliance including a filtering agitator having an internal fluid pumping structure6 Jan 2026US 12,516,465 B2Whirlpool Corporation
- Washing machine and method for washing textiles23 Dec 2025US 12,503,802 B2Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
- Washing machine18 Feb 2025US 12,227,891 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Laundry appliance with removable basket assembly1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297834 A1Whirlpool Corporation
- Detergent supply device and laundry treatment apparatus having the same20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243002 A1LG Electronics Inc.
- Laundry treating apparatus11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160010 A1LG Electronics Inc.
- Laundry machine23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110129 A1Whirlpool Corporation
- Laundry appliance including a filtering agitator having an internal fluid pumping structure2 Apr 2026US 2026/0092410 A1Whirlpool Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Clothes washing machine35US 4,175,409 AGeneral Electric Company · 1979
- Washing machine and method of controlling washing machine31US 8,910,335 B2LG Electronics Inc. · 2014
- Spiral vane clothes mover8US 7,628,044 B2Whirlpool Corporation · 2009
- Washing machine rinse cycle method and apparatus7US 7,017,217 B2General Electric Company · 2006
- Fluid additive dispenser7US 9,027,370 B2General Electric Company · 2015