B60L 13/04
Magnetic suspension or levitation for vehicles
B60L13/04 (Magnetic suspension or levitation for vehicles) appears on 357 US grants and 343 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60L- Granted patents
- 357
- Published applications
- 343
- Assignees
- 182
- Inventors
- 698
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 3 |
| 2002 | 6 | 3 |
| 2003 | 5 | 8 |
| 2004 | 2 | 8 |
| 2005 | 4 | 2 |
| 2006 | 4 | 10 |
| 2007 | 6 | 7 |
| 2008 | 4 | 15 |
| 2009 | 11 | 17 |
| 2010 | 9 | 18 |
| 2011 | 8 | 7 |
| 2012 | 14 | 5 |
| 2013 | 15 | 7 |
| 2014 | 4 | 7 |
| 2015 | 6 | 10 |
| 2016 | 13 | 13 |
| 2017 | 9 | 19 |
| 2018 | 8 | 18 |
| 2019 | 15 | 25 |
| 2020 | 15 | 24 |
| 2021 | 17 | 26 |
| 2022 | 18 | 25 |
| 2023 | 24 | 21 |
| 2024 | 18 | 17 |
| 2025 | 17 | 18 |
| 2026 | 11 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Transportation system6 Oct 2026US 12,752,633 B2
- Method for controlling an operating characteristic of a vehicle, such as the ground clearance18 Aug 2026US 12,709,161 B2Safran Landing Systems
- Bogie for a guideway-bound levitation vehicle28 Jul 2026US 12,691,912 B2Max Boegl Stiftung & Co. KG
- Contactless direction of sortation shuttles along a track26 May 2026US 12,636,957 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Self guided linear induction motor system and method26 May 2026US 12,640,635 B2Swisspod Technologies SA
- Electro-magnetic launch systemsand methods using high force magnetic levitation17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274443 A1Electric Launch, LLC
- Magnetic levitation train rescue wheel device and magnetic levitation train20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241965 A1Crrc Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
- Narrow vehicle body high-speed maglev train and suspension frame therefor6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225626 A1Crrc Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
- Electromagnet current control method and related assembly6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229393 A1Crrc Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd.
- Self guided linear induction motor system and method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0213635 A1Swisspod Technologies SA
Most cited
By later US patents
- Material transportation system134US 6,886,651 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2005
- Magnetic levitation system for moving objects103US 5,722,326 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1998
- Adaptive magnetic levitation apparatus and method91US 7,224,252 B2Magno Corporation · 2007
- System for inductive transfer of power, communication and position sensing to a guideway-operated vehicle90US 6,499,701 B1MagneMotion, Inc. · 2002
- Virtually zero power linear magnetic bearing72US 3,937,148 ACambridge Thermionic Corporation · 1976