B62L 3/02
Brake-actuating mechanisms: for control by a hand lever
Official title: for control by a hand lever (hand levers for control of cycles in general B62K23/06)
B62L3/02 (Brake-actuating mechanisms: for control by a hand lever) appears on 1,103 US grants and 1,043 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B62L- Granted patents
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 49 | 36 |
| 2026 | 23 | 29 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Shift lever and integral handbrake apparatus1,061US 4,100,820 A1978
- Brake lever device1,025US 4,679,460 AYoshigai Kikai Kinzoku Co., Ltd. · 1987
- Bicycle control device100US 5,400,675 AShimano Inc. · 1995
- Bicycle switch and bracket cover therefor87US 6,073,730 AShimano Inc. · 2000
- Bicycle control device78US 5,241,878 AShimano Inc. · 1993