H04N 1/121
Feeding arrangements
Official title: {Feeding arrangements (transporting sheets to or from the scanning position H04N1/0057; control or error compensation of sub-scanning velocity H04N1/0473)}
H04N1/121 (Feeding arrangements) appears on 963 US grants and 817 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 963
- Published applications
- 817
- Assignees
- 199
- Inventors
- 1,731
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 4 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 16 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 27 | 0 |
| 1999 | 34 | 0 |
| 2000 | 24 | 0 |
| 2001 | 19 | 8 |
| 2002 | 9 | 24 |
| 2003 | 31 | 33 |
| 2004 | 18 | 29 |
| 2005 | 10 | 28 |
| 2006 | 22 | 33 |
| 2007 | 15 | 26 |
| 2008 | 28 | 35 |
| 2009 | 32 | 32 |
| 2010 | 34 | 41 |
| 2011 | 24 | 49 |
| 2012 | 35 | 37 |
| 2013 | 62 | 39 |
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| 2017 | 17 | 46 |
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| 2019 | 50 | 34 |
| 2020 | 34 | 23 |
| 2021 | 15 | 30 |
| 2022 | 37 | 35 |
| 2023 | 28 | 24 |
| 2024 | 23 | 31 |
| 2025 | 11 | 21 |
| 2026 | 12 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04N 1/1215Feeding using one or more cylindrical platens or rollers in the immediate301
- H04N 1/1235Feeding a sheet past a transparent plate139
- H04N 1/125The sheet feeding apparatus serving an auxiliary function129
- H04N 1/123Using a dedicated sheet guide element113
- H04N 1/1225Means for maintaining contact between the sheet and the image sensor58
- H04N 1/122Using a feed belt18
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