B60R 3/00
Arrangements of steps or ladders facilitating access to or on the vehicle
Official title: Arrangements of steps {or ladders facilitating access to or on the vehicle}, e.g. running-boards ({construction of steps for railway vehicles B61D23/00} ; ladders E06C)
B60R3/00 (Arrangements of steps or ladders facilitating access to or on the vehicle) appears on 1,689 US grants and 1,604 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60R- Granted patents
- 1,689
- Published applications
- 1,604
- Assignees
- 591
- Inventors
- 2,899
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 15 | 0 |
| 1977 | 13 | 0 |
| 1978 | 20 | 0 |
| 1979 | 17 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 13 | 0 |
| 1982 | 7 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 17 | 0 |
| 2000 | 26 | 0 |
| 2001 | 25 | 6 |
| 2002 | 29 | 23 |
| 2003 | 31 | 35 |
| 2004 | 20 | 37 |
| 2005 | 29 | 53 |
| 2006 | 32 | 44 |
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| 2009 | 25 | 46 |
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| 2011 | 38 | 20 |
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| 2019 | 83 | 91 |
| 2020 | 81 | 85 |
| 2021 | 56 | 101 |
| 2022 | 88 | 98 |
| 2023 | 83 | 101 |
| 2024 | 84 | 92 |
| 2025 | 71 | 90 |
| 2026 | 76 | 90 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Deployable step assembly for an agricultural utility vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,752,710 B2Deere & Company
- Telescopic boom lift6 Oct 2026US 12,752,711 B2Magni Real Estate S.R.L.
- Vehicle step device6 Oct 2026US 12,752,712 B2Aisin Corporation
- Gearbox for a powered running board6 Oct 2026US 12,753,827 B2Magna Exteriors Inc.
- Vehicle22 Sep 2026US 12,741,703 B2Polaris Industries Inc.
- Technology for equipping a utility vehicle cab with an equipment module1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296324 A1Man Truck & Bus AG
- Work vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296345 A1Kubota Corporation
- Fire apparatus with low profile cab1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296571 A1Oshkosh Corporation
- Recreational vehicle with door assembly1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298014 A1Textron Inc.
- Trailer and stairs24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285233 A1Ccip Pty Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Retractable vehicle step156US 5,228,707 ACarriage, Inc. · 1993
- Folding staircase154US 5,941,342 AAPC Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Selecting a cache for a request for information148US 6,701,415 B1America Online, Inc. · 2004
- Vehicle tailgate with supplemental tailgate having a flip out step144US 6,918,624 B2Ford Global Technologies, LLC · 2005
- Vehicle running board139US 5,286,049 AFlex-N-Gate Corporation · 1994