F02F 3/20
The means being a fluid flowing through or along piston
Official title: the means being a fluid flowing through or along piston
F02F3/20 (The means being a fluid flowing through or along piston) appears on 532 US grants and 521 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F02F- Granted patents
- 532
- Published applications
- 521
- Assignees
- 138
- Inventors
- 751
- Latest grant
- 23 Jun 2026
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| 2026 | 2 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Profiled cover plate for a piston23 Jun 2026US 12,662,976 B2Cummins Inc.
- Steel piston for an internal combustion engine24 Mar 2026US 12,584,453 B2Federal-Mogul Nurnberg GmbH
- Piston bearing assembly for an opposed-piston engine30 Dec 2025US 12,510,015 B2General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.
- Connecting rod, piston, crank drive, and reciprocating internal combustion engine7 Oct 2025US 12,435,651 B2
- Lubrication system for a pin joint of an engine piston, an engine piston, and a method of lubricating a pin joint of an engine piston12 Aug 2025US 12,385,447 B2Cummins Inc.
- Piston cooling arrangement1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298174 A1Cummins Inc.
- Piston and engine9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194026 A1Baudouin (Weifang) Power Co., Ltd.
- A piston head for combustion cylinder, and a cooling gallery for a piston head of a combustion cylinder9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194027 A1Cummins Inc.
- Piston head and piston head assembly28 May 2026US 2026/0146574 A1Cummins Power Generation Inc.
- Piston, internal combustion engine, and vehicle23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110274 A1Isuzu Motors Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- External combustion slidable vane motor with air cushions149US 4,672,813 A1987
- Piston for internal combustion engines56US 4,581,983 AKarl Schmidt GmbH · 1986
- Two-piece piston assembly53US 4,377,967 AMack Trucks, Inc. · 1983
- Two-piece oil-cooled piston52US 4,180,027 AMack Trucks, Inc. · 1979
- Oil cooled piston47US 4,286,505 ACaterpillar Tractor Co. · 1981