F01K 15/04
The vehicles being waterborne vessels
Official title: the vehicles being waterborne vessels
F01K15/04 (The vehicles being waterborne vessels) appears on 40 US grants and 35 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F01K- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 35
- Assignees
- 29
- Inventors
- 100
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ship cogeneration system using waste heat of LNG engine ship recovered through economizer10 Feb 2026US 12,546,237 B2Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology
- Cold heat recovery system and marine vessel or floating body27 Jan 2026US 12,535,249 B2Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Cold energy recovery facility and marine vessel4 Nov 2025US 12,460,860 B2Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Cold recovery facility and marine vessel19 Aug 2025US 12,392,453 B2Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Coupled orc heat pump electric generator system27 Aug 2024US 12,071,866 B1
- Ship cogeneration system using waste heat of lng engine ship recovered through economizer18 Jul 2024US 2024/0240576 A1Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology
- Cold recovery facility and marine vessel10 Aug 2023US 2023/0250922 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Cold heat recovery system and marine vessel or floating body10 Aug 2023US 2023/0251002 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Cold energy recovery facility and marine vessel10 Aug 2023US 2023/0251031 A1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Carbon negative energy generation system6 May 2021US 2021/0129967 A1X Development LLC
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By later US patents
- Rankine cycle device having multiple turbo-generators63US 7,665,304 B2Carrier Corporation · 2010
- Closed cycle Brayton propulsion system with direct heat transfer23US 7,926,276 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 2011
- High power density propulsion/power system for underwater applications16US 5,117,635 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1992
- Pulse-jet water propulsor14US 4,057,961 A1977
- Internal combustion closed rankine cycle steam engine11US 4,698,974 AThe Garrett Corporation · 1987