B60N 2/43
Safety locks
Official title: {Safety locks (for back-rests B60N2/433)}
B60N2/43 (Safety locks) appears on 188 US grants and 168 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60N- Granted patents
- 188
- Published applications
- 168
- Assignees
- 116
- Inventors
- 422
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 5 | 5 |
| 2003 | 9 | 5 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3 |
| 2005 | 2 | 9 |
| 2006 | 8 | 3 |
| 2007 | 3 | 6 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5 |
| 2009 | 6 | 4 |
| 2010 | 6 | 4 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 7 | 6 |
| 2014 | 3 | 12 |
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| 2017 | 10 | 2 |
| 2018 | 3 | 6 |
| 2019 | 8 | 7 |
| 2020 | 8 | 14 |
| 2021 | 7 | 16 |
| 2022 | 14 | 9 |
| 2023 | 8 | 3 |
| 2024 | 8 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 7 |
| 2026 | 1 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vehicle equipment device19 May 2026US 12,630,065 B2Grammer AG
- Support leg rebound lock2 Dec 2025US 12,485,803 B2Britax Römer Kindersicherheit GmbH
- Armrest arrangement for a vehicle seat structure of a motor vehicle5 Aug 2025US 12,377,766 B2BOS GmbH & Co. KG
- Seat assembly10 Dec 2024US 12,162,379 B2Adient US LLC
- Lid retaining pendulum10 Dec 2024US 12,162,437 B2Lear Corporation
- Seat Moving Apparatus and Control Method Therefor, Seat, and Vehicle30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217160 A1Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Protection module for limiting and/or blocking a movement between two structural components and/or a seat function of a vehicle seat and vehicle seat7 May 2026US 2026/0124973 A1
- Support leg rebound lock5 Mar 2026US 2026/0061901 A1Britax Römer Kindersicherheit GmbH
- Oscillating inertial latch5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036178 A1Tesla, Inc.
- Adjustment device for a vehicle seat with a swivel element having a deformation section18 Dec 2025US 2025/0381894 A1Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Coburg
Most cited
By later US patents
- Motor vehicle seat88US 6,082,817 AINOVA GmbH Technische Entwicklungen · 2000
- Mechanism for adjusting the angular position of an arm hinged on a support60US 5,882,061 ABertrand Faure Equipments SA · 1999
- Spindle and worm drive for adjusting devices in motor vehicles44US 7,051,986 B1Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG · 2006
- Inertia lock for side-mounted armrest43US 5,658,043 ALear Corporation · 1997
- Emergency locking console assembly41US 6,802,550 B1Lear Corporation · 2004