B60M 3/00
Feeding power to supply lines in contact with collector on vehicles
Official title: Feeding power to supply lines in contact with collector on vehicles; Arrangements for consuming regenerative power (controlling rail vehicles by varying voltage of power fed to vehicle B60L; power distribution in general H02J)
B60M3/00 (Feeding power to supply lines in contact with collector on vehicles) appears on 193 US grants and 202 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60M- Granted patents
- 193
- Published applications
- 202
- Assignees
- 124
- Inventors
- 488
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 4 |
| 2007 | 3 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 |
| 2009 | 1 | 10 |
| 2010 | 0 | 7 |
| 2011 | 7 | 10 |
| 2012 | 6 | 11 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8 |
| 2014 | 6 | 14 |
| 2015 | 9 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 | 18 |
| 2017 | 10 | 12 |
| 2018 | 10 | 8 |
| 2019 | 18 | 16 |
| 2020 | 13 | 18 |
| 2021 | 16 | 10 |
| 2022 | 6 | 13 |
| 2023 | 10 | 9 |
| 2024 | 12 | 9 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 |
| 2026 | 6 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System for implementing continuous co-phase flexible alternating current traction power supply and operation mode therefor22 Sep 2026US 12,741,567 B2China Railway Electrical Industry Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus having electric-field actuated generator for powering electrical load within vicinity of powerlines28 Jul 2026US 12,695,322 B2
- Positioning configuration design device, positioning configuration design method, and program7 Jul 2026US 12,673,584 B2Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Contactless power feeding facility12 May 2026US 12,627,175 B2Daifuku Co., Ltd.
- Transport cart system24 Mar 2026US 12,583,492 B2Murata Machinery, Ltd.
- System and method for powering on-road electric vehicles via wireless power transfer28 May 2026US 2026/0145541 A1Electreon Wireless Ltd.
- Apparatus having electric-field actuated generator for powering electrical load within vicinity of powerlines30 Apr 2026US 2026/0121434 A1NXP Aeronautics Research, LLC
- Method for optimizing and constructing a segmental electrification system5 Mar 2026US 2026/0061877 A1Voltify Inc
- Method and system for current regulation at a receiver of an electric vehicle configured for wireless power transfer29 May 2025US 2025/0170899 A1Electreon Wireless Ltd.
- Method and system for reducing harmonics in a rectified incoming wireless power transfer signal at a receiver of an electric vehicle22 May 2025US 2025/0162425 A1Electreon Wireless Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for deicing of trolley wires234US 4,190,137 ADainichi-Nippon Cables, Ltd. · 1980
- Closable bag and method and arrangement for aseptic filling thereof48US 4,731,978 AAlfa-Laval Food & Dairy Engineering AB · 1988
- Permanent magnet manufacture from very low coercivity crystalline rare earth-transition metal-boron alloy23US 4,921,551 AGeneral Motors Corporation · 1990
- Energy-regulating system for a vehicle22US 8,027,760 B2Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · 2011
- Power supply regulation system for a railway19US 5,346,163 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1994