B60K
Arrangement or mounting of propulsion units or of transmissions in vehicles
Official title: Arrangement or mounting of propulsion units or of transmissions in vehicles; arrangement or mounting of plural diverse prime-movers in vehicles; auxiliary drives for vehicles; instrumentation or dashboards for vehicles; arrangements in connection with cooling, air intake, gas exhaust or fuel supply of propulsion units in vehicles
B60K (Arrangement or mounting of propulsion units or of transmissions in vehicles) appears on 60,306 US grants and 63,250 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60K- Granted patents
- 60,306
- Published applications
- 63,250
- Assignees
- 8,356
- Inventors
- 89,985
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 242 | 0 |
| 1977 | 205 | 0 |
| 1978 | 243 | 0 |
| 1979 | 199 | 0 |
| 1980 | 210 | 0 |
| 1981 | 231 | 0 |
| 1982 | 225 | 0 |
| 1983 | 205 | 0 |
| 1984 | 222 | 0 |
| 1985 | 286 | 0 |
| 1986 | 292 | 0 |
| 1987 | 352 | 0 |
| 1988 | 385 | 0 |
| 1989 | 462 | 0 |
| 1990 | 398 | 0 |
| 1991 | 440 | 0 |
| 1992 | 445 | 0 |
| 1993 | 452 | 0 |
| 1994 | 424 | 0 |
| 1995 | 424 | 0 |
| 1996 | 475 | 0 |
| 1997 | 480 | 0 |
| 1998 | 621 | 0 |
| 1999 | 719 | 0 |
| 2000 | 698 | 0 |
| 2001 | 865 | 329 |
| 2002 | 954 | 991 |
| 2003 | 945 | 1012 |
| 2004 | 842 | 1186 |
| 2005 | 819 | 1277 |
| 2006 | 892 | 1236 |
| 2007 | 826 | 1357 |
| 2008 | 799 | 1445 |
| 2009 | 848 | 1723 |
| 2010 | 1036 | 1731 |
| 2011 | 1074 | 1679 |
| 2012 | 1442 | 1779 |
| 2013 | 1742 | 2289 |
| 2014 | 1946 | 2409 |
| 2015 | 2322 | 2865 |
| 2016 | 2393 | 3178 |
| 2017 | 2798 | 3522 |
| 2018 | 2830 | 3637 |
| 2019 | 3353 | 3972 |
| 2020 | 3413 | 4154 |
| 2021 | 3241 | 3961 |
| 2022 | 3491 | 4101 |
| 2023 | 3204 | 3716 |
| 2024 | 3377 | 3652 |
| 2025 | 3336 | 3451 |
| 2026 | 2183 | 2598 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
- B60K 6/00Arrangement or mounting of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion14,251
- B60K 35/00Instruments specially adapted for vehicles12,189
- B60K 17/00Arrangement or mounting of transmissions in vehicles10,494
- B60K 2360/00Indexing scheme associated with groups b60k35/00 or b60k37/00 relating to details ofIndexing code10,305
- B60K 1/00Arrangement or mounting of electrical propulsion units9,573
- B60K 15/00Arrangement in connection with fuel supply of combustion engines or other fuel6,684
- B60K 11/00Arrangement in connection with cooling of propulsion units4,024
- B60K 23/00Arrangement or mounting of control devices for vehicle transmissions, or parts thereof3,042
All 24 main groupsShow fewer
- B60K 7/00Disposition of motor in, or adjacent to, traction wheel2,973
- B60K 31/00Vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle2,580
- B60K 28/00Safety devices for propulsion-unit control, specially adapted for, or arranged in, vehicles2,141
- B60K 5/00Arrangement or mounting of internal-combustion or jet-propulsion units2,079
- B60K 37/00Dashboards1,549
- B60K 25/00Auxiliary drives1,536
- B60K 13/00Arrangement in connection with combustion air intake or gas exhaust of propulsion1,505
- B60K 26/00Arrangement or mounting of propulsion-unit control devices in vehicles1,440
- B60K 20/00Arrangement or mounting of change-speed gearing control devices in vehicles737
- B60K 16/00Arrangements in connection with power supply of propulsion units in vehicles from255
- B60K 2310/00Arrangements, adaptations or methods for cruise controlsIndexing code213
- B60K 3/00Arrangement or mounting of steam or gaseous-pressure propulsion units145
- B60K 8/00Arrangement or mounting of propulsion units not provided for in one of135
- B60K 2702/00Control devices wherein the control is combined with or essentially influenced byIndexing code18
- B60K 2700/00Control mechanisms and elements applying a mechanical movementIndexing code12
- B60K 2704/00Control devices, wherein the control is combined with or mainly influenced byIndexing code6
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By later US patents
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