B60W 20/30
Control strategies involving selection of transmission gear ratio
Official title: Control strategies involving selection of transmission gear ratio {(control of change speed gearings, together with other vehicle sub-units B60W10/10; HEV transmission gearing B60K6/36; gearings and control thereof F16H)}
B60W20/30 (Control strategies involving selection of transmission gear ratio) appears on 1,049 US grants and 1,127 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60W- Granted patents
- 1,049
- Published applications
- 1,127
- Assignees
- 200
- Inventors
- 1,740
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicular drive unit276US 5,846,155 AAisin Aw Co., Ltd. · 1998
- Control method and apparatus for internal combustion engine electric hybrid vehicles269US 6,054,844 AThe Regents of the University of California · 2000
- Hybrid vehicles228US 6,554,088 B2Paice LLC · 2003
- Hybrid-vehicle power train228US 7,246,672 B2Kabushikikaisha Equos Research · 2007
- Hybrid drive control system for vehicle156US 6,083,138 ANissan Motor Co., Ltd. · 2000