E02F 5/14
Component parts for trench excavators
Official title: Component parts for trench excavators, e.g. indicating devices {travelling gear chassis, supports, skids}
E02F5/14 (Component parts for trench excavators) appears on 289 US grants and 214 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E02F- Granted patents
- 289
- Published applications
- 214
- Assignees
- 143
- Inventors
- 480
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
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| 2004 | 7 | 7 |
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| 2010 | 2 | 5 |
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| 2019 | 23 | 21 |
| 2020 | 14 | 13 |
| 2021 | 9 | 16 |
| 2022 | 14 | 21 |
| 2023 | 9 | 15 |
| 2024 | 16 | 6 |
| 2025 | 13 | 7 |
| 2026 | 6 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Extended scooped trenching blade1 Sep 2026US 12,723,367 B2Evolution Drilling Tools, Inc.
- Trench cutter and method for forming a cut trench in the ground21 Apr 2026US 12,606,983 B2BAUER Maschinen GmbH
- Trench measurement system14 Apr 2026US 12,601,154 B2Caterpillar SARL
- Removably mounted plow for elongated tubular materials24 Feb 2026US 12,557,721 B2Roberts Welding & Fabricating Ltd.
- System for determination of line and level for trenchless construction3 Feb 2026US 12,540,454 B2PLG Technologies, Inc.
- Trench filling methods, machines, and systems for filling trenches9 Jul 2026US 2026/0193862 A1
- Vibratory drop plow system for an excavator2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185322 A1
- System and method for underwater payload estimation in dragline bucket30 Apr 2026US 2026/0117486 A1Caterpillar Global Mining LLC
- Autonomous backfilling apparatus9 Oct 2025US 2025/0314038 A1The Charles Machine Works, Inc.
- Blade detection avoidance for an excavator with ultrasonic systems2 Oct 2025US 2025/0305250 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Excavator data acquisition and control system and process123US 5,704,142 AVermeer Manufacturing Company · 1998
- Excavator data acquisition and control system and method of use109US 5,553,407 AVermeer Manufacturing Company · 1996
- Excavator data acquisition and control system and process103US 5,659,985 AVermeer Manufacturing Company · 1997
- Excavator data acquisition and control system and process80US 6,195,922 B1Vermeer Manufacturing Company · 2001
- Excavator data acquisition and control system and process73US 6,119,376 AVermeer Manufacturing Company · 2000