F02D 29/02
Peculiar to engines driving vehicles
Official title: peculiar to engines driving vehicles; peculiar to engines driving variable pitch propellers
F02D29/02 (Peculiar to engines driving vehicles) appears on 1,564 US grants and 1,667 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F02D- Granted patents
- 1,564
- Published applications
- 1,667
- Assignees
- 285
- Inventors
- 3,320
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 9 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 2 |
| 2002 | 9 | 11 |
| 2003 | 10 | 8 |
| 2004 | 6 | 9 |
| 2005 | 10 | 14 |
| 2006 | 7 | 21 |
| 2007 | 13 | 19 |
| 2008 | 10 | 31 |
| 2009 | 23 | 39 |
| 2010 | 25 | 72 |
| 2011 | 24 | 65 |
| 2012 | 58 | 92 |
| 2013 | 87 | 117 |
| 2014 | 84 | 128 |
| 2015 | 136 | 220 |
| 2016 | 142 | 107 |
| 2017 | 144 | 84 |
| 2018 | 99 | 106 |
| 2019 | 116 | 111 |
| 2020 | 93 | 108 |
| 2021 | 93 | 75 |
| 2022 | 111 | 80 |
| 2023 | 80 | 50 |
| 2024 | 48 | 40 |
| 2025 | 45 | 34 |
| 2026 | 18 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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