F16D 3/12
Specially adapted for accumulation of energy to absorb shocks or vibration
Official title: specially adapted for accumulation of energy to absorb shocks or vibration (by making use of fluid elements F16D3/80)
F16D3/12 (Specially adapted for accumulation of energy to absorb shocks or vibration) appears on 452 US grants and 567 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16D- Granted patents
- 452
- Published applications
- 567
- Assignees
- 225
- Inventors
- 1,080
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2021 | 20 | 51 |
| 2022 | 33 | 25 |
| 2023 | 35 | 25 |
| 2024 | 28 | 17 |
| 2025 | 22 | 26 |
| 2026 | 13 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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