F16H 3/666
With intermeshing orbital gears
Official title: {with intermeshing orbital gears (F16H3/663 takes precedence)}
F16H3/666 (With intermeshing orbital gears) appears on 991 US grants and 905 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16H- Granted patents
- 991
- Published applications
- 905
- Assignees
- 114
- Inventors
- 751
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 67 | 67 |
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| 2020 | 34 | 17 |
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| 2022 | 9 | 16 |
| 2023 | 17 | 8 |
| 2024 | 16 | 11 |
| 2025 | 11 | 5 |
| 2026 | 3 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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- Planetary gear type transmission system217US 4,709,594 AKabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho · 1987
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