F16C 1/223
By adjusting the effective length of the flexible member
Official title: {by adjusting the effective length of the flexible member}
F16C1/223 (By adjusting the effective length of the flexible member) appears on 114 US grants and 65 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16C- Granted patents
- 114
- Published applications
- 65
- Assignees
- 86
- Inventors
- 184
- Latest grant
- 23 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Automobile headlamp adjuster56US 5,707,133 ABurton Technologies, LLC · 1998
- Core length adjuster38US 5,394,770 ATelflex Incorporated · 1995
- Automatic tension-adjusting mechanism for window regulators36US 4,440,354 ANippon Cable System Inc. · 1984
- Core wire length adjuster33US 5,598,743 AHi-Lex Corporation · 1997
- Cable core length adjuster mechanism30US 5,207,116 AGeneral Motors Corporation · 1993