B60K 15/073
Tank construction specially adapted to the vehicle
Official title: Tank construction specially adapted to the vehicle (B60K15/077 takes precedence)
B60K15/073 (Tank construction specially adapted to the vehicle) appears on 154 US grants and 162 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60K- Granted patents
- 154
- Published applications
- 162
- Assignees
- 103
- Inventors
- 395
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 3 | 9 |
| 2025 | 4 | 6 |
| 2026 | 5 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Agricultural tractor1 Sep 2026US 12,722,478 B2Ls Mtron Ltd.
- In-vehicle fuel tank device and utility vehicle11 Aug 2026US 12,703,241 B2Kubota Corporation
- Vehicle gaseous fuel storage system14 Jul 2026US 12,679,200 B2Hyroad Networks LLC
- Systems and methods for articulated loaders23 Jun 2026US 12,662,793 B2Doosan Bobcat North America, Inc.
- Vehicle with a cryogenic container and efficient routing of the connection line17 Mar 2026US 12,578,063 B2Cryoshelter BioLNG GmbH
- Fuel tank assembly for a vehicle17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274066 A1Nissan North America, Inc.
- Systems for installing a compressed gas fuel system in a vehicle and methods of using the same6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225440 A1Natural Gas Fuel Systems, LLC
- Utility vehicle16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200304 A1Textron Inc.
- Vocational vehicle with conformable hydrogen storage9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192657 A1Oshkosh Corporation
- Side impact structure for a fuel tank of a vehicle11 Jun 2026US 2026/0158905 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- High performance fuel tank78US 6,661,339 B2Nextreme, LLC · 2003
- Fuel tank assembly65US 6,138,859 ADelphi Technologies, Inc. · 2000
- Dual fuel tank system for an earthmoving vehicle63US 6,550,811 B12003
- Fuel tank for a heavy vehicle51US 6,402,198 B1Volvo Lastvagnar AB · 2002
- Vehicle body floor construction of motor vehicle42US 4,514,008 AToyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1985