B60W 2540/06
Ignition switch
B60W2540/06 (Ignition switch) appears on 193 US grants and 174 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60W- Granted patents
- 193
- Published applications
- 174
- Assignees
- 87
- Inventors
- 460
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 6 | 3 |
| 2002 | 8 | 10 |
| 2003 | 10 | 8 |
| 2004 | 7 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 6 |
| 2006 | 6 | 1 |
| 2007 | 3 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 9 |
| 2010 | 5 | 12 |
| 2011 | 8 | 5 |
| 2012 | 3 | 2 |
| 2013 | 9 | 10 |
| 2014 | 4 | 10 |
| 2015 | 13 | 12 |
| 2016 | 7 | 8 |
| 2017 | 15 | 9 |
| 2018 | 9 | 12 |
| 2019 | 11 | 8 |
| 2020 | 7 | 8 |
| 2021 | 7 | 6 |
| 2022 | 7 | 9 |
| 2023 | 3 | 9 |
| 2024 | 9 | 3 |
| 2025 | 10 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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