H10P 72/3221
Overhead conveying
Official title: {Overhead conveying}
H10P72/3221 (Overhead conveying) appears on 632 US grants and 832 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10P- Granted patents
- 632
- Published applications
- 832
- Assignees
- 106
- Inventors
- 995
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 5 | 3 |
| 2003 | 3 | 9 |
| 2004 | 5 | 6 |
| 2005 | 3 | 13 |
| 2006 | 1 | 7 |
| 2007 | 5 | 17 |
| 2008 | 5 | 18 |
| 2009 | 10 | 16 |
| 2010 | 11 | 14 |
| 2011 | 10 | 10 |
| 2012 | 15 | 20 |
| 2013 | 10 | 30 |
| 2014 | 20 | 21 |
| 2015 | 25 | 37 |
| 2016 | 23 | 31 |
| 2017 | 32 | 25 |
| 2018 | 37 | 31 |
| 2019 | 36 | 36 |
| 2020 | 27 | 49 |
| 2021 | 38 | 48 |
| 2022 | 34 | 88 |
| 2023 | 41 | 93 |
| 2024 | 67 | 98 |
| 2025 | 84 | 73 |
| 2026 | 72 | 38 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Transferring unit, article transferring system, and control method of transferring unit29 Sep 2026US 12,747,107 B2Semes Co., Ltd.
- Transport facility22 Sep 2026US 12,745,599 B2Daifuku Co., Ltd.
- Contactless power feeder15 Sep 2026US 12,738,769 B2Daifuku Co., Ltd.
- Power supply apparatus and semiconductor manufacturing equipment, transport system including the same15 Sep 2026US 12,740,370 B2Semes Co., Ltd.
- Transfer robot system and the transfer robot system driving method8 Sep 2026US 12,730,446 B2Semes Co., Ltd.
- Wafer container, top cover thereof, and method for managing wafer containers8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314313 A1Nanya Technology Corporation
- Wafer Transportation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314315 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Storage system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296783 A1Murata Machinery, Ltd.
- Overhead transport vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296839 A1Murata Machinery, Ltd.
- System and method for automated wafer carrier handling1 Oct 2026US 2026/0305243 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for handling wafer carrier doors288US 10,622,236 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd · 2020
- Integrated intrabay buffer, delivery, and stocker system158US 5,980,183 AAsyst Technologies, Inc. · 1999
- Conveyor system88US 4,682,927 ANacom Industries, Inc. · 1987
- Integrated intra-bay transfer, storage, and delivery system73US 6,468,021 B1Asyst Technologies, Inc. · 2002
- Stacked process modules for a semiconductor handling system47US 7,422,406 B2BlueShift Technologies, Inc. · 2008