F03G 7/06114
Using the thermal expansion or contraction of solid materials
Official title: {using the thermal expansion or contraction of solid materials}
F03G7/06114 (Using the thermal expansion or contraction of solid materials) appears on 92 US grants and 70 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F03G- Granted patents
- 92
- Published applications
- 70
- Assignees
- 71
- Inventors
- 197
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 2 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Elastomer skins with embedded and unequally pre-loaded coated actuators25 Aug 2026US 12,716,401 B2Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Aircraft component additively having thermally adaptive material and a thermoelectric junction4 Aug 2026US 12,698,783 B2Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Heat engine25 Nov 2025US 12,480,479 B2
- Actuation apparatus and actuation method5 Aug 2025US 12,378,952 B1Luxshare Intelligent Manufacture Technology (Changshu) Co., Ltd
- Elevator installation and operating and/or display panel for an elevator installation29 Apr 2025US 12,286,329 B2Inventio AG
- Two-stage radial compressor with compensating bodies for compensating a change in length occurring upon a change in temperature1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298261 A1ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KGaA & Co. KG
- Pivot based shape memory alloy actuator23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110292 A1Schukra Berndorf GmbH
- Piston intended for a fluid machine and provided with a system for pressing seals, fluid machine comprising such a piston2 Apr 2026US 2026/0092603 A1L Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude et L'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
- Thermal actuator for aircraft engine26 Feb 2026US 2026/0055757 A1Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
- Elastomer Skins with Embedded and Unequally Pre-Loaded Coated Actuators12 Feb 2026US 2026/0043391 A1Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
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- Variable focus lens by small changes of the equatorial lens diameter128US 6,493,151 B2Ras Holding Corp · 2002
- Thermal arched beam microelectromechanical devices and associated fabrication methods116US 5,994,816 AMcnc · 1999
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