F02B 61/00
Adaptations of engines for driving vehicles or for driving propellers
Official title: Adaptations of engines for driving vehicles or for driving propellers; Combinations of engines with gearing (the engine torque being divided by a differential gear for driving a scavenging or charging pump and the engine output shaft F02B39/06; adaptations or combinations of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston engines F02B53/14)
F02B61/00 (Adaptations of engines for driving vehicles or for driving propellers) appears on 4,406 US grants and 1,608 published applications in this corpus.
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