B61F 5/36
Arrangements for equalising or adjusting the load on wheels or springs
Official title: Arrangements for equalising or adjusting the load on wheels or springs, e.g. yokes
B61F5/36 (Arrangements for equalising or adjusting the load on wheels or springs) appears on 57 US grants and 36 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B61F- Granted patents
- 57
- Published applications
- 36
- Assignees
- 37
- Inventors
- 100
- Latest grant
- 28 Oct 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
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- Method and transport vehicle for loading and unloading24 Mar 2020US 10,597,047 B2Plasser & Theurer Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft M. B. H.
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- Method And Transport Vehicle For Loading And Unloading18 Apr 2019US 2019/0111947 A1Plasser & Theurer Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft M. B. H.
- Wheel load adjusting tool of railcar bogie, railcar bogie including the same, and method of manufacturing railcar bogie10 Jan 2019US 2019/0009800 A1Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Radial axle railway truck64US 4,134,343 AGeneral Steel Industries, Inc. · 1979
- Linear steering truck37US 5,666,885 ATransportation Investors Service Corporation · 1997
- Railway car truck and side bearing assembly28US 4,108,080 AACF Industries, Incorporated · 1978
- Method of adjusting the distribution of locomotive axle loads25US 4,793,047 AGeneral Electric Company · 1988
- Linear steering truck24US 7,231,878 B2Active Steering, LLC · 2007