F16D 3/005
Incorporating leaf springs, flexible parts of reduced thickness or the like acting
Official title: {incorporating leaf springs, flexible parts of reduced thickness or the like acting as pivots}
F16D3/005 (Incorporating leaf springs, flexible parts of reduced thickness or the like acting) appears on 59 US grants and 43 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16D- Granted patents
- 59
- Published applications
- 43
- Assignees
- 51
- Inventors
- 117
- Latest grant
- 21 Apr 2026
Filings by year
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| 2023 | 2 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Flexible metallic coupling for drive shafts made by additive manufacturing21 Apr 2026US 12,607,232 B2Goodrich Corporation
- Radially compliant connection7 Jan 2025US 12,188,529 B2Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Drive shafts22 Oct 2024US 12,123,458 B2Goodrich Corporation
- Flexible spinning scroll coupling device15 Oct 2024US 12,116,998 B2Air Squared, Inc.
- Flexible coupling assembly9 Jul 2024US 12,031,593 B2Goodrich Corporation
- Shaft-hub connection arrangement between a metallic shaft and a hub made of plastic20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243309 A1Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
- Connecting piece4 Sep 2025US 2025/0277499 A1Jentech Precision Industrial Co., LTD.
- Flexible coupling assembly3 Oct 2024US 2024/0328463 A1Goodrich Corporation
- Flexible metallic coupling for drive shafts made by additive manufacturing3 Oct 2024US 2024/0328464 A1Goodrich Corporation
- Flexible spinning scroll coupling device9 Nov 2023US 2023/0358229 A1Air Squared, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Flexure joint, particularly for connecting a gyroscope to its driving shaft71US 4,261,211 AAnschutz & Co. GmbH · 1981
- Multi-piece flexural pivot58US 4,997,123 ALucas Aerospace Power Transmission Corp. · 1991
- Flexural pivot55US 6,666,612 B2Be System Etudes Cao Realisations · 2003
- Flexible coupling42US 3,988,906 A1976
- Multigimbal flexure universal joint35US 3,943,778 ALitton Systems, Inc. · 1976