F16H 55/06
Use of materials
Official title: Use of materials; Use of treatments of toothed members or worms to affect their intrinsic material properties
F16H55/06 (Use of materials) appears on 548 US grants and 688 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16H- Granted patents
- 548
- Published applications
- 688
- Assignees
- 360
- Inventors
- 1,450
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2002 | 11 | 19 |
| 2003 | 9 | 9 |
| 2004 | 7 | 12 |
| 2005 | 10 | 22 |
| 2006 | 8 | 10 |
| 2007 | 4 | 20 |
| 2008 | 9 | 27 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13 |
| 2010 | 11 | 22 |
| 2011 | 9 | 11 |
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| 2014 | 8 | 28 |
| 2015 | 16 | 36 |
| 2016 | 21 | 33 |
| 2017 | 23 | 36 |
| 2018 | 22 | 44 |
| 2019 | 29 | 47 |
| 2020 | 40 | 61 |
| 2021 | 38 | 56 |
| 2022 | 42 | 40 |
| 2023 | 47 | 31 |
| 2024 | 39 | 25 |
| 2025 | 32 | 22 |
| 2026 | 17 | 26 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Gearbox for a powered running board6 Oct 2026US 12,753,827 B2Magna Exteriors Inc.
- Gear train component, planetary gear train, actuating drive, use and method for producing an actuating drive22 Sep 2026US 12,742,493 B2Oechsler Aktiengesellschaft
- Hub body for a composite wheel, in particular for a composite gear wheel, a composite wheel, in particular a composite gear wheel, and a steering unit for a motor vehicle15 Sep 2026US 12,736,120 B2IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA
- Multi-component gear wheel for a gear assembly of a brake actuator, brake actuator having such a multi-component gear wheel, and method for producing such a multi-component wheel8 Sep 2026US 12,729,753 B2IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA
- Gearwheel with an insert portion made of metal and an outer portion made of plastic, steering mechanism with such a gearwheel and method for producing such a gearwheel25 Aug 2026US 12,716,478 B2ZF Friedrichshafen AG
- Composite structure rotating body and resin molded body1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298326 A1Resonac Corporation
- Lightweight gear24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287048 A1Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Resin gear24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287049 A1Resonac Corporation
- Bicycle Sprocket24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287051 A1Campagnolo S.r.l.
- Method for manufacturing strain wave gear10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264145 A1Iljin Global Holdings Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Gear and method for making the same115US 4,589,860 ASKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH · 1986
- Composite gear and method of making same112US 5,852,951 ABriggs & Stratton Corporation · 1998
- Mold type plastic gear75US 6,070,484 AEnplas Corporation · 2000
- Gear made of resin, and mold structure54US 6,883,397 B2Enplas Corporation · 2005
- Injection-molded gear for engine and manufacturing method therefor47US 5,722,295 AFuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1998