B62D 61/00
Motor vehicles or trailers, characterised by the arrangement or number of wheels
Official title: Motor vehicles or trailers, characterised by the arrangement or number of wheels, not otherwise provided for, e.g. four wheels in diamond pattern
B62D61/00 (Motor vehicles or trailers, characterised by the arrangement or number of wheels) appears on 1,449 US grants and 1,106 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B62D- Granted patents
- 1,449
- Published applications
- 1,106
- Assignees
- 631
- Inventors
- 2,480
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 16 | 0 |
| 1977 | 21 | 0 |
| 1978 | 21 | 0 |
| 1979 | 23 | 0 |
| 1980 | 17 | 0 |
| 1981 | 17 | 0 |
| 1982 | 24 | 0 |
| 1983 | 15 | 0 |
| 1984 | 23 | 0 |
| 1985 | 16 | 0 |
| 1986 | 26 | 0 |
| 1987 | 24 | 0 |
| 1988 | 18 | 0 |
| 1989 | 9 | 0 |
| 1990 | 21 | 0 |
| 1991 | 17 | 0 |
| 1992 | 11 | 0 |
| 1993 | 12 | 0 |
| 1994 | 19 | 0 |
| 1995 | 21 | 0 |
| 1996 | 18 | 0 |
| 1997 | 14 | 0 |
| 1998 | 17 | 0 |
| 1999 | 16 | 0 |
| 2000 | 14 | 0 |
| 2001 | 22 | 6 |
| 2002 | 23 | 20 |
| 2003 | 19 | 22 |
| 2004 | 20 | 35 |
| 2005 | 20 | 30 |
| 2006 | 23 | 35 |
| 2007 | 27 | 41 |
| 2008 | 21 | 30 |
| 2009 | 16 | 34 |
| 2010 | 43 | 29 |
| 2011 | 20 | 16 |
| 2012 | 24 | 33 |
| 2013 | 27 | 32 |
| 2014 | 39 | 29 |
| 2015 | 38 | 56 |
| 2016 | 59 | 51 |
| 2017 | 42 | 51 |
| 2018 | 47 | 64 |
| 2019 | 46 | 79 |
| 2020 | 58 | 79 |
| 2021 | 62 | 73 |
| 2022 | 78 | 63 |
| 2023 | 61 | 60 |
| 2024 | 70 | 58 |
| 2025 | 63 | 43 |
| 2026 | 31 | 37 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B62D 61/12Motor vehicles or trailers, characterised by the arrangement or number of wheels556
- B62D 61/06Motor vehicles or trailers, characterised by the arrangement or number of wheels329
- B62D 61/10Motor vehicles or trailers, characterised by the arrangement or number of wheels298
- B62D 61/02Motor vehicles or trailers, characterised by the arrangement or number of wheels121
Recent patents
- Handling an axle configuration of a vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,752,870 B2Volvo Truck Corporation
- Remotely operated vehicle for environmental research29 Sep 2026US 12,746,991 B1United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Robot15 Sep 2026US 12,735,129 B2Beijing Ke Yi Technology Co., Ltd.
- Axle lifting system for crane and related methods1 Sep 2026US 12,722,726 B2Link-Belt Cranes, L.P., Lllp
- Drag wheel for trailer25 Aug 2026US 12,715,241 B2Austin Hardware & Supply, Inc.
- Utility vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296580 A1Polaris Industries Inc.
- Carrying vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296581 A1Exedy Corporation
- Vehicle suspension arrangement and electric vehicle17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274022 A118 Wheels Oy
- Suspension device for ground rover mobility17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274027 A1Hyundai Motor Company
- Vehicle loading safety system and a method for increasing safety during a loading event for a parked vehicle10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264646 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fault tolerant architecture for a personal vehicle230US 6,223,104 B1DEKA Products Limited Partnership · 2001
- Personal mobility vehicles and methods215US 6,302,230 B1DEKA Products Limited Partnership · 2001
- Sonar Scanner210US 6,870,792 B2iRobot Corporation · 2005
- Reconfigurable footprint mechanism for omnidirectional vehicles186US 5,927,423 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1999
- Omni-directional and holonomic rolling platform with decoupled rotational and translational degrees of freedom184US 5,374,879 AMartin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. · 1994