B62D 55/08
Endless track units
Official title: Endless track units; Parts thereof
B62D55/08 (Endless track units) appears on 3,256 US grants and 2,686 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B62D- Granted patents
- 3,256
- Published applications
- 2,686
- Assignees
- 888
- Inventors
- 4,215
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 76 | 0 |
| 1977 | 54 | 0 |
| 1978 | 83 | 0 |
| 1979 | 49 | 0 |
| 1980 | 47 | 0 |
| 1981 | 45 | 0 |
| 1982 | 30 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 64 | 0 |
| 2001 | 69 | 23 |
| 2002 | 76 | 60 |
| 2003 | 62 | 76 |
| 2004 | 40 | 81 |
| 2005 | 58 | 82 |
| 2006 | 47 | 61 |
| 2007 | 41 | 57 |
| 2008 | 41 | 75 |
| 2009 | 44 | 88 |
| 2010 | 69 | 87 |
| 2011 | 71 | 80 |
| 2012 | 49 | 97 |
| 2013 | 70 | 84 |
| 2014 | 92 | 108 |
| 2015 | 76 | 112 |
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| 2017 | 117 | 141 |
| 2018 | 113 | 186 |
| 2019 | 131 | 152 |
| 2020 | 121 | 130 |
| 2021 | 113 | 181 |
| 2022 | 110 | 138 |
| 2023 | 132 | 125 |
| 2024 | 120 | 147 |
| 2025 | 110 | 104 |
| 2026 | 94 | 69 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B62D 55/18Tracks1,586
- B62D 55/14Arrangement, location, or adaptation of rollers680
- B62D 55/12Arrangement, location, or adaptation of driving sprockets634
- B62D 55/104Suspension devices for wheels, rollers, bogies or frames568
- B62D 55/084Endless-track units or carriages mounted separably, adjustably or extensibly on vehicles448
- B62D 55/30Track-tensioning means421
- B62D 55/10Bogies355
- B62D 55/088With means to exclude or remove foreign matter335
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By later US patents
- Reconfigurable mobile vehicle with magnetic tracks262US 5,363,935 ACarnegie Mellon University · 1994
- Robotic platform257US 6,263,989 B1iRobot Corporation · 2001
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- Omnidirectional vehicle221US 5,186,270 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1993
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