BOBST SA
196Patents
19Active
196Granted
43Portfolio score
Filing activity: Nov 8, 1979 → May 12, 2010 · 17 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD467561S1 | Stand for video screen | General | 89 | Expired |
| US4604083A | Machine for manufacturing folded boxes | Physics | 69 | Expired |
| US4847775A | Method and device for controlling the setting of the components of a printing and cutting machine | Performing Operations; Transporting | 49 | Expired |
| US5138667A | Process and device for detecting print registration marks on a web from a multi-color printing press | Performing Operations; Transporting | 46 | Expired |
| US5241483A | Method and apparatus for checking printing and cutting quality in a package producing installation | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Expired |
| US4901641A | Printing press | Performing Operations; Transporting | 35 | Expired |
| US5215512A | Blank separating tools changing table | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 33 | Expired |
| US7690099B2 | Transformation station for a packaging production machine | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Active |
| US5810233A | Device for separating blanks from a sheet of cut blanks | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 28 | Expired |
| US7637857B2 | Device for maintaining side tabs of box blanks running through a folder-gluer | Performing Operations; Transporting | 27 | Expired |
| US5240102A | Table with carrier balls designed to rotate in directions extending along two parallel orthogonal lines | Performing Operations; Transporting | 27 | Expired |
| US7060016B2 | Device for rotary converting a web or sheet matter | Performing Operations; Transporting | 25 | Expired |
| US6499397B2 | Method of automatic register setting of printings in a rotary machine and device for working the method | Performing Operations; Transporting | 22 | Expired |
| US5181330A | Device for assembling superposed, glued web-like layers | Performing Operations; Transporting | 22 | Expired |
| US5215011A | Device for scanning pale color marks on a printing machine | Performing Operations; Transporting | 22 | Expired |
| US5142978A | Offset printing machine for variable printing sizes with automatic loading and unloading of the printing cylinders | Performing Operations; Transporting | 19 | Expired |
| US5027509A | Method for manufacturing a tool cylinder | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US4367997A | Device for creating batches of flat workpieces such as box blanks | Performing Operations; Transporting | 19 | Expired |
| US5329466A | Registration control device for use in a rotary printing machine | Performing Operations; Transporting | 18 | Expired |
| US5275105A | Rotary printing machine equipped with an exchangeable cylinder | Performing Operations; Transporting | 18 | Expired |
| US4457658A | Device for introducing a batch of sheets into a processing machine | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Expired |
| US5435541A | Frame arranged in a machine for temporarily supporting a plate-like workpiece in a horizontal plane | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 18 | Expired |
| US6606947B2 | Device for processing printing defects detected in a printing machine | Performing Operations; Transporting | 18 | Expired |
| US5004221A | Device for conveying plate-like matter within a rotary printing machine | Performing Operations; Transporting | 18 | Expired |
| US5293984A | Device to handle and to orient flat workpieces arranged in batches | Performing Operations; Transporting | 17 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.