B60L 13/00
Electric propulsion for monorail vehicles, suspension vehicles or rack railways
Official title: Electric propulsion for monorail vehicles, suspension vehicles or rack railways; Magnetic suspension or levitation for vehicles ({tracks for Maglev-type trains E01B25/30;} electromagnets per se H01F7/06; linear motors per se H02K41/00)
B60L13/00 (Electric propulsion for monorail vehicles, suspension vehicles or rack railways) appears on 780 US grants and 710 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60L- Granted patents
- 780
- Published applications
- 710
- Assignees
- 325
- Inventors
- 1,445
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 16 | 0 |
| 1977 | 7 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 7 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 5 |
| 2002 | 7 | 6 |
| 2003 | 10 | 13 |
| 2004 | 7 | 14 |
| 2005 | 6 | 9 |
| 2006 | 6 | 18 |
| 2007 | 12 | 18 |
| 2008 | 11 | 23 |
| 2009 | 17 | 27 |
| 2010 | 14 | 35 |
| 2011 | 20 | 13 |
| 2012 | 24 | 14 |
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| 2017 | 19 | 40 |
| 2018 | 23 | 38 |
| 2019 | 36 | 62 |
| 2020 | 43 | 50 |
| 2021 | 45 | 52 |
| 2022 | 38 | 48 |
| 2023 | 37 | 43 |
| 2024 | 40 | 40 |
| 2025 | 33 | 34 |
| 2026 | 30 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B60L 13/04Magnetic suspension or levitation for vehicles357
- B60L 13/03Electric propulsion by linear motors258
- B60L 13/10Combination of electric propulsion and magnetic suspension or levitation199
- B60L 13/003Crossings59
- B60L 13/006Electric propulsion adapted for monorail vehicles, suspension vehicles or rack railways59
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- Control system and method for a rail-track system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241967 A1Magway Limited
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Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for servo control of nonlinear electromagnetic actuators139US 6,208,497 B1Venture Scientifics, LLC · 2001
- Material transportation system134US 6,886,651 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2005
- Traffic/transportation system121US 6,129,025 A2000
- Vehicle guidance and switching via magnetic forces108US 6,101,952 AMagneMotion, Inc. · 2000
- Magnetic levitation system for moving objects103US 5,722,326 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1998