B60Q 1/506
Specific to silent vehicles
Official title: {specific to silent vehicles, e.g. for warning that a hybrid or electric vehicle is approaching}
B60Q1/506 (Specific to silent vehicles) appears on 24 US grants and 28 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60Q- Granted patents
- 24
- Published applications
- 28
- Assignees
- 25
- Inventors
- 71
- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 5 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3 |
| 2020 | 3 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vehicle proximity notification device, vehicle proximity notification method, and mobile device7 Oct 2025US 12,434,625 B2Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
- Intelligent vehicle systems and control logic for battery charge control and information display2 Apr 2024US 11,945,329 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Method and device for alerting the presence of combination vehicles19 Mar 2024US 11,932,168 B2Volvo Truck Corporation
- Vehicle warning signal emission22 Aug 2023US 11,733,960 B1Zoox, Inc.
- Vehicle and control method thereof12 Jul 2022US 11,383,702 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Cover Part for a Bumper of a Motor Vehicle20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241882 A1Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Vehicle proximity notification device, vehicle proximity notification method, and mobile device4 Apr 2024US 2024/0109486 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Intelligent vehicle systems and control logic for battery charge control and information display2 Nov 2023US 2023/0347777 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- External lighting effects for a vehicle20 Jul 2023US 2023/0226971 A1Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
- Method and device for alerting the presence of combination vehicles13 Apr 2023US 2023/0116681 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Pedestrian alert system and method25US 8,537,030 B2Ford Global Technologies, LLC · 2013
- Directed alert notification by autonomous-driving vehicle22US 10,726,687 B2Pony AI Inc. · 2020
- Construction machine20US 7,487,023 B2Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. · 2009
- Vehicle warning device13US 8,169,305 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha · 2012
- Vehicle-presence notifying apparatus and vehicle-presence notifying method8US 7,253,746 B2Fujitsu Ten Limited · 2007