B60W 30/19
Improvement of gear change
Official title: Improvement of gear change, e.g. by synchronisation or smoothing gear shift
B60W30/19 (Improvement of gear change) appears on 1,311 US grants and 1,239 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60W- Granted patents
- 1,311
- Published applications
- 1,239
- Assignees
- 261
- Inventors
- 2,250
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2024 | 38 | 19 |
| 2025 | 24 | 23 |
| 2026 | 12 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Gear-shifting control method, vehicle controller, and hybrid vehicle14 May 2026US 2026/0131779 A1Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd.
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By later US patents
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- Throttle control system for an automatic shift countershaft transmission91US 4,493,228 AGeneral Motors Corporation · 1985
- Combined system for assisting shifting of manual transmission79US 5,582,558 ARockwell International Corporation · 1996
- Vehicle drive line shift control system and method78US 4,850,236 AEaton Corporation · 1989