F16F 9/3405
Throttling passages in or on piston body
Official title: {Throttling passages in or on piston body, e.g. slots (F16F9/344, F16F9/3481 take precedence)}
F16F9/3405 (Throttling passages in or on piston body) appears on 212 US grants and 225 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 225
- Assignees
- 134
- Inventors
- 425
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 7 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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