B61D 17/043
Connections between superstructure sub-units
Official title: {connections between superstructure sub-units (for road vehicles B62D27/00)}
B61D17/043 (Connections between superstructure sub-units) appears on 155 US grants and 116 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61D- Granted patents
- 155
- Published applications
- 116
- Assignees
- 82
- Inventors
- 393
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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| 2026 | 4 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Composite insulated boxcar floor19 May 2026US 12,630,200 B2Trinity Rail Group, LLC
- Rail vehicle with dilation profile, method of manufacturing a rail vehicle and dilation profile17 Feb 2026US 12,552,421 B2Stadler Rail AG
- Gondola railroad car3 Feb 2026US 12,539,893 B2Gunderson LLC
- Half-round cargo container and trailer3 Feb 2026US 12,539,923 B2Titan Trailers Inc.
- Assembly for increasing the load-bearing capacity of a structural component of a rail vehicle2 Sep 2025US 12,403,941 B2Siemens Mobility GmbH
- Half-Round Cargo Container and Trailer30 Oct 2025US 2025/0333119 A1Titan Trailers Inc.
- Imaging system for bulk transport vehicles14 Aug 2025US 2025/0256662 A1Dimension Product Solutions LP
- Work vehicle for carrying out work operations on a track7 Nov 2024US 2024/0367697 A1Plasser & Theurer Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft M. B. H.
- Railroad car and floor structure therefor31 Oct 2024US 2024/0359713 A1National Steel Car Limited
- Large Component for a Rail Vehicle26 Sep 2024US 2024/0317277 A1Siemens Mobility Austria GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Composite vehicle body having sandwich panels integrally formed with frame parts to form individual body modules which are connected to other body modules to form the vehicle body125US 5,042,395 AMesserschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH · 1991
- Railway car body structures92US 5,140,913 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1992
- Fastener for composite structures51US 5,542,777 AMartin Marietta Corporation · 1996
- Railway car body structures and method of making them48US 5,685,229 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1997
- Temperature controlled composite boxcar48US 6,138,580 ATRN Business Trust · 2000