F16H 57/0431
Means for guiding lubricant directly onto a tooth surface or to foot
Official title: {Means for guiding lubricant directly onto a tooth surface or to foot areas of a gear, e.g. by holes or grooves in a tooth flank}
F16H57/0431 (Means for guiding lubricant directly onto a tooth surface or to foot) appears on 105 US grants and 109 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16H- Granted patents
- 105
- Published applications
- 109
- Assignees
- 81
- Inventors
- 260
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2009 | 1 | 5 |
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| 2015 | 2 | 10 |
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| 2017 | 9 | 12 |
| 2018 | 3 | 10 |
| 2019 | 9 | 5 |
| 2020 | 9 | 12 |
| 2021 | 7 | 9 |
| 2022 | 9 | 4 |
| 2023 | 10 | 5 |
| 2024 | 9 | 4 |
| 2025 | 6 | 5 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Electric drum19 May 2026US 12,631,241 B1Jiangsu Winroller Transmission Technology Co., LTD
- Transmission for a wind turbine10 Feb 2026US 12,546,289 B2Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Transmission25 Nov 2025US 12,480,572 B2Flender GmbH
- Lubricating structure for gear tooth surface14 Oct 2025US 12,442,445 B2Harmonic Drive Systems Inc.
- Assembly for lubricating a gearwheel of a transmission, a transmission and a vehicle30 Sep 2025US 12,429,129 B2Volvo Truck Corporation
- Additively manufactured gears for aerospace and defense7 May 2026US 2026/0126106 A1Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Gearbox assembly for lubricating gears23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110354 A1GE Avio S. r. l.
- Transmission for a wind turbine10 Jul 2025US 2025/0223946 A1Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Transmission for a wind turbine3 Jul 2025US 2025/0215857 A1Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Assembly for lubricating a gearwheel of a transmission, a transmission and a vehicle19 Jun 2025US 2025/0198502 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Continuously variable transmission106US 8,480,529 B2Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC · 2013
- Continuously variable transmission70US 9,017,207 B2Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC · 2015
- Continuously variable transmission46US 9,726,282 B2Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC · 2017
- Lubrication system for auxiliary equipment transmission28US 4,573,373 AHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1986
- Gear drive24US 3,960,029 ACarl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co. · 1976