B62D 21/06
Understructures, i.e. chassis frame on which a vehicle body may be mounted
Official title: of X-shaped or fork-shaped construction, i.e. having members which form an X or fork as the frame is seen in plan view
B62D21/06 (Understructures, i.e. chassis frame on which a vehicle body may be mounted) appears on 69 US grants and 71 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B62D- Granted patents
- 69
- Published applications
- 71
- Assignees
- 36
- Inventors
- 163
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Vehicle frames for battery powered electric vehicles9 Dec 2025US 12,491,759 B2Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Apparatus for locking chassis frames9 Dec 2025US 12,491,948 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Land vehicles incorporating cradles for supporting electrical devices and components therefor27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249676 A1Workhorse Group Inc.
- Vehicle frame structure23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208793 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Modular Spaceframe Configurations and Methods16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200305 A1Bsl Ch AG
- Vehicle frames for battery powered electric vehicles19 Jun 2025US 2025/0196610 A1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicle body structure for an automotive vehicle82US 6,270,153 B1Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 2001
- Passenger vehicle body frame38US 4,950,026 A1990
- Utility vehicle30US 8,585,088 B1Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 2013
- Vehicle frame structure16US 8,393,669 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha · 2013
- Motor vehicle15US 7,090,290 B2Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · 2006