B60J 5/042
Reinforcement elements
Official title: {Reinforcement elements}
B60J5/042 (Reinforcement elements) appears on 981 US grants and 869 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60J- Granted patents
- 981
- Published applications
- 869
- Assignees
- 338
- Inventors
- 2,086
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 33 | 31 |
| 2025 | 28 | 23 |
| 2026 | 18 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Vehicle beam component with transverse stiffening array6 Oct 2026US 12,752,610 B2Shape Corp.
- Main body for a motor vehicle door7 Jul 2026US 12,673,538 B2Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Rigidity-improved vehicle panel door30 Jun 2026US 12,668,106 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Panel fastening structure and method of panel door for vehicle23 Jun 2026US 12,661,962 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Vehicle doors including reinforcement members16 Jun 2026US 12,654,521 B2Nissan North America, Inc.
- Braked sliding sidewall and door8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307723 A1
- Panel set3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257540 A1Nippon Steel Corporation
- Impact absorbing structures and methods of manufacturing27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249667 A1Plasan Sasa Ltd.
- Thermally broken trimless door13 Aug 2026US 2026/0234989 A1
- Vehicle outer panel assembly30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217092 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Composite laminate beam for radiator support248US 5,575,526 ANovamax Technologies, Inc. · 1996
- Composite tubular door beam reinforced with a syntactic foam core localized at the mid-span of the tube244US 4,978,562 AMPA Diversified Products Inc. · 1990
- Composite tubular door beam reinforced with a reacted core localized at the mid-span of the tube233US 5,124,186 AMPA Diversified Products Inc. · 1992
- Reinforced door beam214US 5,884,960 AHenkel Corporation · 1999
- Method of manufacturing a lightweight composite automotive door beam164US 4,922,596 AEssex Composite Systems · 1990