F04B 17/003
Driven by piezoelectric means
Official title: {driven by piezoelectric means (F04B43/046 and F04B43/095 take precedence)}
F04B17/003 (Driven by piezoelectric means) appears on 184 US grants and 192 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F04B- Granted patents
- 184
- Published applications
- 192
- Assignees
- 100
- Inventors
- 347
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2019 | 25 | 11 |
| 2020 | 18 | 18 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8 |
| 2023 | 14 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 6 |
| 2025 | 3 | 6 |
| 2026 | 6 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Piezoelectric MEMS-based active cooling for heat dissipation in compute devices22 Sep 2026US 12,745,638 B2Frore Systems Inc.
- Electronic vaporiser system28 Jul 2026US 12,690,610 B2Ayr Ltd.
- Active balancing of multiple interleaved piezo pumps23 Jun 2026US 12,662,997 B2Safran Landing Systems UK LTD
- Piezo-electric fluid pump14 Apr 2026US 12,601,337 B2Safran Landing Systems UK LTD
- Diaphragm pump adjustment portion for adjusting resonant frequency of diaphragm14 Apr 2026US 12,601,341 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Fluid driving mechanism2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185515 A1TDK Taiwan Corp.
- Fluid driving mechanism2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185516 A1TDK Taiwan Corp.
- Fluid driving mechanism2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185517 A1TDK Taiwan Corp.
- Novel design and production technique of synthetic jet actuators28 May 2026US 2026/0146595 A1Actasys Inc.
- Pressure monitoring for device failure detection and device health in a urology implantable medical device15 Jan 2026US 2026/0014001 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Micro pump powered by piezoelectric disk benders168US 3,963,380 A1976
- Piezoelectric vacuum pump and method152US 6,450,773 B1Terabeam Corporation · 2002
- Piezoelectrically actuated fluid pumps70US 6,042,345 AFace International Corporation · 2000
- Pump for pumping liquid in a pulse-free flow67US 4,115,036 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1978
- Piezoelectrically actuated peristaltic pump63US 6,074,178 AFace International Corporation · 2000