E02F 3/43
Control of dipper or bucket position
Official title: Control of dipper or bucket position; Control of sequence of drive operations
E02F3/43 (Control of dipper or bucket position) appears on 1,752 US grants and 2,027 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E02F- Granted patents
- 1,752
- Published applications
- 2,027
- Assignees
- 284
- Inventors
- 2,577
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 155 | 133 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Decoupled safety system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308885 A1Bedrock Robotics Inc.
- Construction machine8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308886 A1Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- System for autonomous excavation and truck loading171US 6,363,632 B1Carnegie Mellon University · 2002
- Method and apparatus for determining the location of a work implement149US 5,404,661 ACaterpillar Inc. · 1995
- Adaptable controller for work vehicle attachments145US 6,061,617 ACase Corporation · 2000
- Automatic excavation control system and method139US 5,065,326 ACaterpillar Inc. · 1991
- Electronic control for a two-axis work implement115US 6,233,511 B1Case Corporation · 2001