B64D 37/14
Filling or emptying
Official title: Filling or emptying (transferring fuels to adjust aircraft trim B64C17/10)
B64D37/14 (Filling or emptying) appears on 229 US grants and 256 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64D- Granted patents
- 229
- Published applications
- 256
- Assignees
- 113
- Inventors
- 561
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 14 | 20 |
| 2025 | 19 | 19 |
| 2026 | 16 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Configuration for a LH2 fuel cell aircraft with distributed systems25 Aug 2026US 12,715,602 B2The Boeing Company
- Aircraft fuel storage system25 Aug 2026US 12,715,604 B2Airbus Operations GmbH
- Pump system18 Aug 2026US 12,709,404 B2Airbus Operations GmbH
- Aircraft refueling safety system11 Aug 2026US 12,703,501 B2FliteLogix, LLC
- Airport installation including a plurality of dihydrogen storage tanks23 Jun 2026US 12,663,117 B2Airbus Operations GmbH
- Dihydrogen tank system for an aircraft having a turbine1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302976 A1Airbus Operations GmbH
- Fuel system for supplying an aircraft with hydrogen, method and aircraft24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287120 A1MTU Aero Engines AG
- Hydrogen fuel supply system and aircraft17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274431 A1Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Hydrogen aircraft17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274432 A1Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Methods and systems for venting a fuel tank on a blended wing body aircraft13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233850 A1JetZero, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Independent power generation in aircraft68US 8,657,227 B1The Boeing Company · 2014
- Fuel supply system66US 5,660,358 ADaimler-Benz Aerospace AG · 1997
- Independent power generation in aircraft63US 8,950,703 B2The Boeing Company · 2015
- System and method for scavenging ullage from center wing tanks in an airplane62US 8,602,362 B2Simmonds Precision Products, Inc. · 2013
- Uninterruptible oil supply system51US 6,463,819 B1Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. · 2002