E02D 3/046
By tamping or vibrating
Official title: by tamping or vibrating, e.g. with auxiliary watering of the soil (E02D3/026, E02D3/08 take precedence; generating or transmitting mechanical vibrations for performing mechanical work in general B06B; tamping or vibrating apparatus for working ballast or railways E01B27/00, for consolidating paving materials E01C19/30, for consolidating concrete in general E04G21/06)
E02D3/046 (By tamping or vibrating) appears on 347 US grants and 304 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E02D- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
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- Vibratory plate compactor and method for adjusting a transport device of a vibratory plate compactor pivotable between a stowed position and a transport position11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160028 A1BOMAG GmbH
- Compaction-based dynamic automated compaction plan4 Jun 2026US 2026/0152917 A1Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
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By later US patents
- Mobile soil compacting device whose direction of travel is stabilized91US 6,846,128 B2Wacker Construction Equipment AG · 2005
- Ground treatment87US 6,505,998 B1Global Innovations, LLC · 2003
- Drivable device for compacting a soil layer structure and method for ascertaining a layer modulus of elasticity of an uppermost layer of this soil layer structure80US 8,671,760 B2BOMAG GmbH · 2014
- Method and system for compaction measurement78US 8,635,903 B2Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. · 2014
- Determination of soil stiffness levels77US 7,483,791 B2Ammann Schweiz AG · 2009