E02F 9/163
Structures to protect drivers
Official title: {Structures to protect drivers, e.g. cabins, doors for cabins; Falling object protection structure [FOPS]; Roll over protection structure [ROPS] (for handrails mounted on cabins E02F9/0833 takes precedence; for vehicles in general B60R21/11, B60R21/13, for fork-lift trucks B66F9/07545)}
E02F9/163 (Structures to protect drivers) appears on 307 US grants and 354 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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