B60Q 3/217
Doors
Official title: Doors, e.g. door sills; Steps
B60Q3/217 (Doors) appears on 278 US grants and 318 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60Q- Granted patents
- 278
- Published applications
- 318
- Assignees
- 139
- Inventors
- 694
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 7 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 3 |
| 2003 | 3 | 5 |
| 2004 | 1 | 4 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 5 |
| 2007 | 2 | 4 |
| 2008 | 2 | 7 |
| 2009 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 2 | 7 |
| 2011 | 4 | 7 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5 |
| 2013 | 9 | 14 |
| 2014 | 8 | 8 |
| 2015 | 8 | 22 |
| 2016 | 12 | 10 |
| 2017 | 14 | 23 |
| 2018 | 24 | 30 |
| 2019 | 25 | 26 |
| 2020 | 23 | 22 |
| 2021 | 23 | 29 |
| 2022 | 24 | 18 |
| 2023 | 20 | 25 |
| 2024 | 28 | 19 |
| 2025 | 12 | 7 |
| 2026 | 8 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Component for vehicle interior30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217187 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Lighting device for motor vehicles379US 6,152,590 ADonnelly Hohe GmbH & Co. KG · 2000
- Lighting device for motor vehicles265US 6,347,880 B1Donnelly Hohe GmbH & Co. KG · 2002
- Lighting device utilizing light active sheet material with integrated light emitting diode, disposed in seam and/or in low profile application208US 8,754,426 B2Grote Industries, Inc. · 2014
- Method and system for flexible illuminated devices having edge lighting utilizing light active sheet material with integrated light emitting diode181US 8,876,352 B2Grote Industries, Inc. · 2014
- Lighting device for motor vehicles175US 6,616,313 B2Donnelly Hohe GmbH & Co. KG · 2003