F16D 23/12

Mechanical clutch-actuating mechanisms arranged outside the clutch as such

Official title: Mechanical clutch-actuating mechanisms arranged outside the clutch as such (specific for combined clutches F16D21/00; mechanisms specific for synchronisation F16D23/02)

F16D23/12 (Mechanical clutch-actuating mechanisms arranged outside the clutch as such) appears on 1,569 US grants and 1,310 published applications in this corpus.

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Year	Granted patents	Published applications
1976	16	0
1977	18	0
1978	21	0
1979	9	0
1980	20	0
1981	20	0
1982	17	0
1983	13	0
1984	13	0
1985	23	0
1986	29	0
1987	29	0
1988	24	0
1989	29	0
1990	29	0
1991	14	0
1992	19	0
1993	8	0
1994	9	0
1995	8	0
1996	13	0
1997	10	0
1998	17	0
1999	18	0
2000	14	0
2001	11	6
2002	17	18
2003	7	17
2004	20	21
2005	17	37
2006	15	19
2007	20	33
2008	13	17
2009	11	33
2010	13	27
2011	18	26
2012	26	28
2013	31	42
2014	34	52
2015	55	74
2016	54	86
2017	64	117
2018	76	101
2019	103	99
2020	124	102
2021	95	68
2022	71	76
2023	70	64
2024	78	57
2025	55	55
2026	31	35

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