B60T 8/248
Trailer sway
Official title: {Trailer sway, e.g. for preventing jackknifing}
B60T8/248 (Trailer sway) appears on 111 US grants and 107 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60T- Granted patents
- 111
- Published applications
- 107
- Assignees
- 59
- Inventors
- 257
- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
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| 2026 | 5 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Trailer brake control system26 May 2026US 12,637,043 B2AGCO International GmbH
- Method and control device for controlling driving operation of an articulated tracked vehicle12 May 2026US 12,623,720 B2BAE Systems Hägglunds Aktiebolag
- Trailer brake control system7 Apr 2026US 12,594,919 B2AGCO International GmbH
- Trailer sway detection and braking distribution using a camera mirror system3 Mar 2026US 12,565,179 B2Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
- Compressed-air braking system for a tractor vehicle3 Feb 2026US 12,539,836 B2Zf Cv Systems Europe BV
- Control valve assembly for a hydraulic braking system of a vehicle connected to a trailer27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249825 A1Raicam Driveline S.R.L.
- Detection of yaw instabilities in vehicle combinations27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253458 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
- Detection of yaw instabilities in vehicle combinations20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245410 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
- Brake system and control method thereof23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208707 A1Hl Mando Corporation
- Mitigation of jack-knifing14 May 2026US 2026/0131613 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Trailer control system144US 6,668,225 B2Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. · 2003
- Trailer brake control device of tractor-trailer combination vehicle for suppression of side sway of trailer121US 6,042,196 AToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha · 2000
- System and method for braking a towed conveyance100US 6,516,925 B1Ford Global Technologies, LLC · 2003
- Tractor trailer articulation control system and method99US 5,001,639 AEaton Corporation · 1991
- Stability enhancing system for tow-vehicle and trailer assembly combination with two processors98US 7,798,263 B2Tandy Engineering & Associates, Inc. · 2010