H04N 1/00615
Guiding elements
Official title: {Guiding elements, e.g. plates}
H04N1/00615 (Guiding elements) appears on 321 US grants and 394 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 321
- Published applications
- 394
- Assignees
- 52
- Inventors
- 597
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 5 |
| 2003 | 7 | 0 |
| 2004 | 2 | 10 |
| 2005 | 2 | 6 |
| 2006 | 1 | 5 |
| 2007 | 4 | 10 |
| 2008 | 6 | 14 |
| 2009 | 4 | 11 |
| 2010 | 11 | 19 |
| 2011 | 12 | 6 |
| 2012 | 12 | 18 |
| 2013 | 20 | 16 |
| 2014 | 16 | 15 |
| 2015 | 24 | 10 |
| 2016 | 11 | 16 |
| 2017 | 14 | 25 |
| 2018 | 18 | 22 |
| 2019 | 25 | 24 |
| 2020 | 21 | 18 |
| 2021 | 11 | 22 |
| 2022 | 28 | 27 |
| 2023 | 34 | 32 |
| 2024 | 25 | 19 |
| 2025 | 6 | 21 |
| 2026 | 5 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Medium conveyance device and image reading device6 Oct 2026US 12,753,036 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Medium processing device and image forming apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,756,784 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Sheet supply apparatus, image reading apparatus, and recording apparatus28 Apr 2026US 12,615,339 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image reading device24 Feb 2026US 12,559,332 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Image forming apparatus with structure to selectively guide print medium to reading member for scanning image thereon10 Feb 2026US 12,547,113 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Medium loading device, feeding device, image reading device, and image forming device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296070 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Document feeder, image reader, and image forming apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303735 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Document conveyance apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303736 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Medium conveying apparatus and recording apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285063 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Document conveying device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281265 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Image formation apparatus, printer, copying machine, and facsimile device29US 6,681,096 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2004
- Guide for a paper feeder21US 6,512,602 B1Avision Inc. · 2003
- Compact transparent sheet digitizer offering angular and positional accuracy of a sheet and uniform sheet motion17US 5,583,663 AAgfa-Gevaert · 1996
- Image reading apparatus and document feeding method in image reading apparatus14US 6,738,167 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 2004
- Image scanner and image scanning method14US 7,639,404 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 2009