A61F 2220/0091
Connected by a hinged linkage mechanism
Official title: connected by a hinged linkage mechanism, e.g. of the single-bar or multi-bar linkage type
A61F2220/0091 (Connected by a hinged linkage mechanism) appears on 846 US grants and 1,208 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 846
- Published applications
- 1,208
- Assignees
- 321
- Inventors
- 1,304
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 4 | 11 |
| 2004 | 3 | 23 |
| 2005 | 7 | 46 |
| 2006 | 4 | 51 |
| 2007 | 8 | 56 |
| 2008 | 8 | 75 |
| 2009 | 12 | 54 |
| 2010 | 40 | 50 |
| 2011 | 31 | 40 |
| 2012 | 70 | 44 |
| 2013 | 41 | 23 |
| 2014 | 51 | 44 |
| 2015 | 47 | 38 |
| 2016 | 48 | 53 |
| 2017 | 39 | 39 |
| 2018 | 36 | 54 |
| 2019 | 42 | 79 |
| 2020 | 52 | 66 |
| 2021 | 67 | 70 |
| 2022 | 52 | 69 |
| 2023 | 39 | 58 |
| 2024 | 46 | 63 |
| 2025 | 48 | 62 |
| 2026 | 34 | 31 |
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