F02C 3/02
Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working
Official title: using exhaust-gas pressure in a pressure exchanger to compress combustion-air (pressure exchangers per se F04F13/00)
F02C3/02 (Gas-turbine plants characterised by the use of combustion products as the working) appears on 60 US grants and 34 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F02C- Granted patents
- 60
- Published applications
- 34
- Assignees
- 33
- Inventors
- 84
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 4 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 3 | 0 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2008 | 0 | 4 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2018 | 2 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 5 |
| 2023 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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