F16H 57/021
Shaft support structures
Official title: Shaft support structures, e.g. partition walls, bearing eyes, casing walls or covers with bearings
F16H57/021 (Shaft support structures) appears on 1,736 US grants and 1,804 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16H- Granted patents
- 1,736
- Published applications
- 1,804
- Assignees
- 733
- Inventors
- 3,900
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
| 1977 | 9 | 0 |
| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983 | 6 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 15 | 0 |
| 1993 | 24 | 0 |
| 1994 | 12 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 17 | 0 |
| 1997 | 14 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 15 | 0 |
| 2000 | 18 | 0 |
| 2001 | 24 | 10 |
| 2002 | 21 | 29 |
| 2003 | 26 | 23 |
| 2004 | 35 | 27 |
| 2005 | 17 | 46 |
| 2006 | 16 | 41 |
| 2007 | 25 | 39 |
| 2008 | 20 | 43 |
| 2009 | 23 | 28 |
| 2010 | 23 | 38 |
| 2011 | 18 | 29 |
| 2012 | 22 | 33 |
| 2013 | 40 | 39 |
| 2014 | 36 | 55 |
| 2015 | 52 | 82 |
| 2016 | 45 | 91 |
| 2017 | 68 | 72 |
| 2018 | 77 | 139 |
| 2019 | 79 | 112 |
| 2020 | 126 | 147 |
| 2021 | 106 | 129 |
| 2022 | 133 | 115 |
| 2023 | 123 | 105 |
| 2024 | 105 | 119 |
| 2025 | 123 | 112 |
| 2026 | 81 | 101 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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