G05B 2219/40544
Detect proximity of object
G05B2219/40544 (Detect proximity of object) appears on 20 US grants and 28 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G05B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 28
- Assignees
- 23
- Inventors
- 72
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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| 2020 | 4 | 6 |
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| 2024 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Intelligent sensing ball launcher28 Jul 2026US 12,690,566 B2Hanlan Technology (Huizhou) Co., Ltd
- Method for determining a minimum distance between an object and an apparatus surface, safety device for a handling apparatus having an apparatus surface, and handling apparatus19 May 2026US 12,629,841 B2Roundpeg Technologies GmbH
- Robot system17 Feb 2026US 12,552,034 B2Mantis Robotics, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for robot collision avoidance by full surface proximity detection15 Jul 2025US 12,358,170 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Robotic device with time-of-flight proximity sensing system18 Feb 2025US 12,226,909 B2STMicroelectronics S.r. l.
- Robot control apparatus26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084295 A1Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp.
- Intelligent sensing ball launcher18 Dec 2025US 2025/0380668 A1Hanlan Technology (Huizhou) Co., Ltd
- Method and apparatus for robot collision avoidance by full surface proximity detection9 Oct 2025US 2025/0312932 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Robot and method for calculating distance to object20 Feb 2025US 2025/0060757 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Method for determining a minimum distance between an object and an apparatus surface, safety device for a handling apparatus having an apparatus surface, and handling apparatus11 Jul 2024US 2024/0227193 A9Roundpeg Technologies GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Monitoring system and methods for monitoring machines with same44US 8,686,871 B2General Electric Company · 2014
- Mobile communication device having a direct communication capability15US 5,825,149 ANippondenso Co., Ltd. · 1998
- Proximity detection in fabrication environments having robots6US 10,789,824 B12020
- Industrial robot, controller, and method thereof4US 10,800,032 B2OMRON Corporation · 2020
- Robotic device with time-of-flight proximity sensing system4US 11,453,123 B2STMicroelectronics S.r. l. · 2022