B60L 3/00
Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes
Official title: Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption (methods or circuit arrangements for monitoring or controlling batteries or fuel cells B60L58/00)
B60L3/00 (Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes) appears on 10,039 US grants and 12,670 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60L- Granted patents
- 10,039
- Published applications
- 12,670
- Assignees
- 2,281
- Inventors
- 20,994
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 14 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 11 | 0 |
| 1979 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 8 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 70 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 85 | 0 |
| 2001 | 52 | 24 |
| 2002 | 74 | 69 |
| 2003 | 67 | 103 |
| 2004 | 81 | 115 |
| 2005 | 61 | 119 |
| 2006 | 82 | 103 |
| 2007 | 79 | 137 |
| 2008 | 86 | 177 |
| 2009 | 107 | 228 |
| 2010 | 144 | 335 |
| 2011 | 191 | 361 |
| 2012 | 219 | 485 |
| 2013 | 366 | 654 |
| 2014 | 417 | 752 |
| 2015 | 579 | 826 |
| 2016 | 649 | 683 |
| 2017 | 659 | 521 |
| 2018 | 596 | 607 |
| 2019 | 608 | 605 |
| 2020 | 515 | 722 |
| 2021 | 586 | 641 |
| 2022 | 587 | 865 |
| 2023 | 590 | 1012 |
| 2024 | 716 | 918 |
| 2025 | 816 | 888 |
| 2026 | 500 | 720 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B60L 3/0023Detecting, eliminating, remedying or compensating for drive train abnormalities6,794
- B60L 3/04Cutting off the power supply under fault conditions2,047
- B60L 3/12Recording operating variables1,988
- B60L 3/0007Measures or means for preventing or attenuating collisions824
- B60L 3/10Indicating wheel slip701
- B60L 3/0092Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes: with use of redundant648
- B60L 3/06Limiting the traction current under mechanical overload conditions107
- B60L 3/08Means for preventing excessive speed of the vehicle77
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