E05B 81/14
Operating on bolt detents
Official title: operating on bolt detents, e.g. for unlatching the bolt
E05B81/14 (Operating on bolt detents) appears on 672 US grants and 802 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E05B- Granted patents
- 672
- Published applications
- 802
- Assignees
- 174
- Inventors
- 1,031
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2006 | 19 | 39 |
| 2007 | 23 | 10 |
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| 2024 | 43 | 46 |
| 2025 | 48 | 52 |
| 2026 | 34 | 49 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Latch assembly6 Oct 2026US 12,753,642 B2Minebea AccessSolutions France
- Lock for a motor vehicle, in particular hood or hinged-panel lock15 Sep 2026US 12,735,920 B2Kiekert AG
- Motor vehicle lock, in particular motor vehicle door lock8 Sep 2026US 12,729,567 B2Kiekert AG
- Soft opening latch for an automotive vehicle8 Sep 2026US 12,729,568 B2Fca US LLC
- Door latch device8 Sep 2026US 12,729,569 B2U-Shin Ltd.
- Door latch device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308944 A1U-Shin Ltd.
- Motor vehicle lock, in particular motor vehicle door lock8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308947 A1Kiekert AG
- Motor vehicle lock8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308949 A1Kiekert AG
- Vehicle door actuator8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308950 A1Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
- Vehicle lock with u-shaped release lever8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308951 A1Cebi Italy S.P.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Central locking system for an automotive vehicle with structurally identical door locks134US 5,802,894 AKiekert AG · 1998
- Door lock for motor vehicles91US 5,497,641 ABayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · 1996
- Control function-power operated lift gate82US 5,563,483 AChrysler Corporation · 1996
- Motor vehicle door locking system and door handle82US 7,091,836 B2Brose Schliesssysteme GmbH & Co. KG · 2006
- Latch device for use with a vehicle trunk lid81US 5,632,515 AMitsui Kinzoku Kogyo Kabusiki Kaisha · 1997