F16F 15/3156
Arrangement of the bearings
Official title: {Arrangement of the bearings}
F16F15/3156 (Arrangement of the bearings) appears on 78 US grants and 69 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 4 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Energy storage apparatus62US 4,077,678 AThe United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1978
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