B29C 73/16
Auto-repairing or self-sealing arrangements or agents
Official title: Auto-repairing or self-sealing arrangements or agents {(incorporating auto-repairing or self-sealing arrangements or agents on or into tyres B29D30/0685)}
B29C73/16 (Auto-repairing or self-sealing arrangements or agents) appears on 699 US grants and 798 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29C- Granted patents
- 699
- Published applications
- 798
- Assignees
- 247
- Inventors
- 1,027
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 20 | 21 |
| 2026 | 20 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Sealant composition for self-sealing pneumatic tire15 Sep 2026US 12,734,772 B2The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
- Vehicle-mounted air compressor and bottle cap assembly15 Sep 2026US 12,734,849 B2Unik World Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Self-healing rubber comprising a poly(methacrylic) oligomer8 Sep 2026US 12,729,289 B2Bridgestone Europe NV/SA
- Tire patching kit25 Aug 2026US 12,715,183 B2Nuvalux LLC
- Tire patching kit25 Aug 2026US 12,715,184 B2Nuvalux LLC
- Tire patching kit8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307343 A1Nuvalux LLC
- Tire patching kit8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307344 A1Nuvalux LLC
- Pneumatic tire sealing sheet17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273877 A1Nitto Denko Corporation
- Tire with internal air chambers30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217058 A1
- Accessory set of tire repairing device9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192533 A1Unik World Industrial Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Self-repairing, reinforced matrix materials85US 6,527,849 B22003
- Self-repairing, reinforced matrix materials81US 5,660,624 A1997
- Multifunctional autonomically healing composite material81US 6,518,330 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2003
- Self-repairing, reinforced matrix materials80US 5,989,334 A1999
- Self-repairing, reinforced matrix materials76US 6,261,360 B12001