F16H 61/0248
Control units where shifting is directly initiated by the driver
Official title: {Control units where shifting is directly initiated by the driver, e.g. semi-automatic transmissions}
F16H61/0248 (Control units where shifting is directly initiated by the driver) appears on 249 US grants and 64 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16H- Granted patents
- 249
- Published applications
- 64
- Assignees
- 76
- Inventors
- 341
- Latest grant
- 18 Nov 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Work vehicle and method for controlling work vehicle18 Nov 2025US 12,473,975 B2Kubota Corporation
- Vehicle transmission control system1 Jul 2025US 12,345,327 B1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Shifting system for human-powered vehicle26 Nov 2024US 12,151,779 B2Shimano Inc.
- Methods and systems for an actuation system19 Mar 2024US 11,933,397 B2Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC
- Controller for vehicle12 Mar 2024US 11,926,210 B1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Work vehicle and method for controlling work vehicle5 Dec 2024US 2024/0401695 A1Kubota Corporation
- Electric Work Vehicle16 May 2024US 2024/0157813 A1Kubota Corporation
- Controller for vehicle29 Feb 2024US 2024/0066982 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Methods and systems for an actuation system15 Feb 2024US 2024/0052925 A1Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC
- Shifting system for human-powered vehicle24 Aug 2023US 2023/0264783 A1Shimano Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Semi-automatic mechanical transmission control142US 4,648,290 AEaton Corporation · 1987
- Electrical control for power shift transmission88US 4,425,620 ASteiger Tractor Inc. · 1984
- Shift enable control method/system67US 5,272,939 AEaton Corporation · 1993
- Automatic shift control system for an automatic transmission including a select-shift manual control60US 6,292,731 B1Ford Global Technologies, LLC · 2001
- Shift control method/system57US 5,335,566 AEaton Corporation · 1994