B60R 21/0136

Responsive to actual contact with an obstacle

Official title: responsive to actual contact with an obstacle {, e.g. to vehicle deformation, bumper displacement or bumper velocity relative to the vehicle (monitoring crash strength in combination with passenger seat detection B60R21/01558)}

B60R21/0136 (Responsive to actual contact with an obstacle) appears on 1,017 US grants and 1,006 published applications in this corpus.

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Assignees: 272
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Latest grant: 22 Sep 2026

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Year	Granted patents	Published applications
1976	1	0
1977	1	0
1978	2	0
1979	1	0
1980	1	0
1981	2	0
1982	1	0
1983	1	0
1984	0	0
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1992	2	0
1993	9	0
1994	10	0
1995	7	0
1996	5	0
1997	7	0
1998	7	0
1999	6	0
2000	8	0
2001	20	9
2002	15	19
2003	21	18
2004	18	28
2005	17	32
2006	18	46
2007	19	74
2008	39	64
2009	45	60
2010	49	28
2011	35	30
2012	33	26
2013	37	21
2014	34	43
2015	34	49
2016	44	35
2017	40	51
2018	42	50
2019	69	58
2020	59	43
2021	41	40
2022	45	36
2023	46	46
2024	55	57
2025	42	24
2026	23	19

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