F16F 9/342
Throttling passages operating with metering pins
Official title: Throttling passages operating with metering pins {(F16F9/486 takes precedence)}
F16F9/342 (Throttling passages operating with metering pins) appears on 89 US grants and 85 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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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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