B60G 17/04
Fluid spring characteristics
Official title: fluid spring characteristics
B60G17/04 (Fluid spring characteristics) appears on 1,707 US grants and 1,397 published applications in this corpus.
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- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B60G 17/052Pneumatic spring characteristics906
- B60G 17/056Regulating distributors or valves for hydropneumatic systems375
- B60G 17/0416Regulated by varying the resiliency of hydropneumatic suspensions214
- B60G 17/0408Details132
- B60G 17/048With the regulating means inside the fluid springs103
- B60G 17/044Self-pumping fluid springs99
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