B60K 15/03006
Gas tanks
Official title: {Gas tanks (B60K15/07 takes precedence)}
B60K15/03006 (Gas tanks) appears on 531 US grants and 618 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60K- Granted patents
- 531
- Published applications
- 618
- Assignees
- 261
- Inventors
- 1,196
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 36 | 46 |
| 2025 | 32 | 36 |
| 2026 | 19 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Aircraft fuel storage system25 Aug 2026US 12,715,604 B2Airbus Operations GmbH
- Gas storage device18 Aug 2026US 12,710,136 B2Twisted Sun Innovations, Inc.
- Securing Element, Pressure Vessel System and Motor Vehicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309283 A1Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Tank system for a motor vehicle, method for operating a tank system, motor vehicle, computer program product, and computer-readable medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296176 A1Robert Bosch GmbH
- Thermal management system for a fuel cell vehicle24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290863 A1AB Volvo Penta
- Hybrid electric vehicle17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274062 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Valve assembly for a fuel gas tank, fuel gas tank comprising a valve assembly, and fuel gas tank system10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264507 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for liquefaction of natural gas137US 6,023,942 AExxon Production Research Company · 2000
- Compressed gas fuel storage system107US 6,257,360 B1The Johns Hopkins University · 2001
- Multi-component refrigeration process for liquefaction of natural gas100US 5,950,453 AExxon Production Research Company · 1999
- Modular fuel storage system for a vehicle78US 7,270,209 B2General Motors Corporation · 2007
- Refuse vehicle having tailgate-mounted CNG tanks73US 9,579,969 B2Oshkosh Corporation · 2017