F16H 59/66
Road conditions
Official title: Road conditions, e.g. slope, slippery
F16H59/66 (Road conditions) appears on 703 US grants and 533 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16H- Granted patents
- 703
- Published applications
- 533
- Assignees
- 155
- Inventors
- 1,363
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 13 | 0 |
| 1998 | 25 | 0 |
| 1999 | 22 | 0 |
| 2000 | 17 | 0 |
| 2001 | 31 | 11 |
| 2002 | 24 | 20 |
| 2003 | 21 | 13 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8 |
| 2005 | 6 | 13 |
| 2006 | 15 | 17 |
| 2007 | 7 | 11 |
| 2008 | 3 | 15 |
| 2009 | 11 | 17 |
| 2010 | 7 | 17 |
| 2011 | 17 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10 | 19 |
| 2013 | 18 | 14 |
| 2014 | 21 | 23 |
| 2015 | 27 | 45 |
| 2016 | 22 | 20 |
| 2017 | 35 | 31 |
| 2018 | 28 | 52 |
| 2019 | 41 | 30 |
| 2020 | 36 | 39 |
| 2021 | 44 | 35 |
| 2022 | 31 | 23 |
| 2023 | 30 | 17 |
| 2024 | 26 | 17 |
| 2025 | 16 | 10 |
| 2026 | 6 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Force-based determination of a target gear combination for a plurality of drive systems18 Aug 2026US 12,709,165 B2Man Truck & Bus AG
- Methods and systems for controlling gear shifts based on future trajectory information16 Jun 2026US 12,654,717 B2Waymo LLC
- Apparatus and method for supporting off-road driving and vehicle and storage medium including the same2 Jun 2026US 12,644,514 B1Hyundai Motor Company
- Gear shifting method, control unit, program product, electric drive system, and electric vehicle10 Mar 2026US 12,570,160 B2Robert Bosch GmbH
- Control arrangement and method for controlling a powertrain of a vehicle10 Mar 2026US 12,571,471 B2Scania CV AB
- Methods and Systems for Controlling Gear Shifts based on Future Trajectory Information17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274273 A1Waymo LLC
- Control system for vehicle16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200337 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method for controlling a gearbox of a vehicle, related computer system and vehicle25 Jun 2026US 2026/0175703 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
- Systems and methods for improving effiency of automated manual tranmission (amt) shifting for a vehicle25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177143 A1Cummins Inc.
- Transmission setting selection and auxiliary braking control system18 Jun 2026US 2026/0167229 A1Cummins Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicle collision avoidance system727US 5,529,138 A1996
- Automobile collision avoidance system250US 5,314,037 A1994
- Controlling vehicular driving force in anticipation of road situation on which vehicle is to run utilizing vehicular navigation system162US 5,832,400 ANissan Motor Co., Ltd. · 1998
- Control system for controlling the behavior of a vehicle based on accurately detected route information155US 6,199,001 B1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha · 2001
- Driving control apparatus of hybrid vehicle and method thereof154US 6,314,347 B1Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. · 2001