F16H 61/16
Inhibiting or initiating shift during unfavourable conditions
Official title: Inhibiting {or initiating} shift during unfavourable conditions {, e.g. preventing forward-reverse shift at high vehicle speed, preventing engine overspeed} (F16H61/18 takes precedence)
F16H61/16 (Inhibiting or initiating shift during unfavourable conditions) appears on 930 US grants and 634 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16H- Granted patents
- 930
- Published applications
- 634
- Assignees
- 240
- Inventors
- 1,876
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 33 | 21 |
| 2003 | 19 | 15 |
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| 2024 | 21 | 18 |
| 2025 | 23 | 11 |
| 2026 | 10 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- F16H 2061/163Holding the gear for delaying gear shifts under unfavorable conditionsIndexing code134
- F16H 2061/161By checking feasibility of shifts, i.e. determine if requested shift can beIndexing code99
- F16H 2061/166Preventing or initiating shifts for preventing stall or overspeed of engineIndexing code87
- F16H 2061/168Forced shifts into neutral for safety reasonsIndexing code66
- F16H 2061/165Preventing reverse gear shifts if vehicle speed is too high for safeIndexing code45
Recent patents
- Neutral coast inhibit system and method for transmissions1 Sep 2026US 12,723,650 B1Allison Transmission, Inc.
- Method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle25 Aug 2026US 12,716,488 B2Brp-Rotax GmbH & Co. KG
- Forklift active braking control method and system based on power shift transmission11 Aug 2026US 12,703,338 B2Anhui Heli Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods to impede shift from park in a vehicle11 Aug 2026US 12,704,174 B2
- System and method for intelligent vehicle gearshift in carwash9 Jun 2026US 12,650,169 B1
- Vehicle comprising a transmission8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309225 A1
- Transmission controller and vehicle27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251216 A1Kawasaki Motors, Ltd.
- Shift control system for vehicle6 Aug 2026US 2026/0226980 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Gear shift control system for vehicle, and control method thereof16 Jul 2026US 2026/0201948 A1Hyundai Kefico Corporation
- Method for controlling a gearbox of a vehicle, related computer system and vehicle25 Jun 2026US 2026/0175703 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method of neutral start control of a power transmission1,495US 5,809,441 ACase Corporation · 1998
- Transmission control system using road data to control the transmission110US 6,070,118 AToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha · 2000
- Electronic controller for automatic transmissions93US 4,892,014 ASparton Corporation · 1990
- Method and apparatus for controlling a motor vehicle drive train77US 5,113,721 AAuto Polly Gesellschaft M.B.H. · 1992
- Transmission control device responsive to road information76US 6,278,928 B1Kabushikikaisha Equos Research · 2001