A61F 2002/30563
Having elastic means or damping means, different from springs
Official title: {having elastic means or damping means, different from springs, e.g. including an elastomeric core or shock absorbers}
A61F2002/30563 (Having elastic means or damping means, different from springs) appears on 1,200 US grants and 1,459 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,459
- Assignees
- 424
- Inventors
- 1,559
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 17 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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