F03G 7/066
Actuator control or monitoring
Official title: {Actuator control or monitoring}
F03G7/066 (Actuator control or monitoring) appears on 402 US grants and 404 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F03G- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 404
- Assignees
- 205
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 29 | 14 |
| 2026 | 10 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- SMA actuator assembly6 Oct 2026US 12,753,742 B2Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
- SMA actuators for optical image stabilisation18 Aug 2026US 12,710,132 B2Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
- Actuators28 Jul 2026US 12,692,847 B2Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
- Optical anti-shake apparatus and camera module9 Jun 2026US 12,652,466 B2Galaxycore Shanghai Limited Corporation
- Actuator assembly2 Jun 2026US 12,644,439 B2Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
- Actuator assembly20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244078 A1
- Variable speed actuators6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227636 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Control method, device, and readable storage medium2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185509 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Actuator and actuator drive method25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177041 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Cooling system for flexible actuator based on shape memory alloy and operation method thereof28 May 2026US 2026/0146591 A1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for bending an insertion section of an endoscope using a shape memory alloy431US 4,930,494 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1990
- Memory metal actuator340US 4,553,393 AThe United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1985
- Method and apparatus for spatially orienting movable members using shape memory effect alloy actuator170US 4,790,624 AIdentechs Corporation · 1988
- Implantable fluid delivery device for basal and bolus delivery of medicinal fluids154US 6,416,495 B1Science Incorporated · 2002
- Thin-film shape memory alloy actuators and processing methods151US 6,447,478 B12002