F16D 15/00
Clutches with wedging balls or rollers or with other wedgeable separate clutching
Official title: Clutches with wedging balls or rollers or with other wedgeable separate clutching members (freewheels, freewheel clutches F16D41/00)
F16D15/00 (Clutches with wedging balls or rollers or with other wedgeable separate clutching) appears on 236 US grants and 241 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16D- Granted patents
- 236
- Published applications
- 241
- Assignees
- 111
- Inventors
- 351
- Latest grant
- 21 Jul 2026
Filings by year
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| 2015 | 12 | 23 |
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| 2017 | 20 | 28 |
| 2018 | 20 | 38 |
| 2019 | 31 | 28 |
| 2020 | 33 | 25 |
| 2021 | 12 | 5 |
| 2022 | 10 | 7 |
| 2023 | 8 | 9 |
| 2024 | 6 | 5 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 |
| 2026 | 3 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Subsea valve actuator11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160341 A1OneSubsea IP UK Limited
- Side-mounted electro-mechanical braking apparatus and vehicle21 May 2026US 2026/0138581 A1Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Electro-mechanical braking apparatus with in-shaft locking mechanism, system, and vehicle14 May 2026US 2026/0132831 A1Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Clutch62US 4,901,831 ANTN Toyo Bearing Co., Ltd. · 1990
- Controllable one-way clutch for a vehicle55US 5,638,929 AHyundai Motor Company · 1997
- End effector of a surgical robotic manipulator54US 9,566,121 B2Stryker Corporation · 2017
- Rolling-contact bearing type clutch24US 5,035,309 A1991
- Modular and lightweight myoelectric prosthesis components and related methods23US 9,839,534 B2Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago · 2017