B60J 5/0456
Behaviour during impact
Official title: {Behaviour during impact}
B60J5/0456 (Behaviour during impact) appears on 204 US grants and 206 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60J- Granted patents
- 204
- Published applications
- 206
- Assignees
- 95
- Inventors
- 489
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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| 2024 | 7 | 8 |
| 2025 | 12 | 7 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Safety device for a vehicle, and vehicle16 Jun 2026US 12,654,522 B2Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
- Vehicle door19 May 2026US 12,629,994 B2Subaru Corporation
- Boarding and alighting step-mounted vehicle31 Mar 2026US 12,589,695 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Passenger motor vehicle having improved side impact protection9 Dec 2025US 12,491,756 B2Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Safety release system, a side impact restraint protection system, and a method for operating a safety release system2 Dec 2025US 12,485,734 B2Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.
- Vehicle door assembly with improved rigidity16 Apr 2026US 2026/0103058 A1Hyundai Motor Company
- Catcher bracket for intrusion beam of vehicle door5 Mar 2026US 2026/0061806 A1Atieva, Inc.
- Impact-absorbing member for automobile door, automobile door, blank, and method for manufacturing impact-absorbing member for automobile door2 Oct 2025US 2025/0303832 A1Nippon Steel Corporation
- Side door structure2 Oct 2025US 2025/0303833 A1Subaru Corporation
- Energy absorber21 Aug 2025US 2025/0262917 A1Moriroku Technology Company, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Reinforcement means for resisting side impacts against an automobile door57US 4,307,911 AThe Budd Company · 1981
- Armrest structure for vehicle57US 7,121,611 B2Mazda Motor Corporation · 2006
- Vehicle body side structure38US 5,599,057 AHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997
- Integrated motor vehicle door and chassis34US 5,806,917 AJoalto Design, Inc. · 1998
- Lateral protection for motor vehicles33US 4,013,317 ADaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft · 1977