F16H 61/68
Control functions within control units of change-speed- or reversing-gearings for conveying rotary
Official title: specially adapted for stepped gearings
F16H61/68 (Control functions within control units of change-speed- or reversing-gearings for conveying rotary) appears on 2,353 US grants and 1,889 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16H- Granted patents
- 2,353
- Published applications
- 1,889
- Assignees
- 338
- Inventors
- 3,230
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 42 | 53 |
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| 2004 | 64 | 86 |
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| 2024 | 53 | 33 |
| 2025 | 37 | 17 |
| 2026 | 14 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Motorcycle3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257745 A1Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Work machine13 Aug 2026US 2026/0234906 A1Komatsu Ltd.
- Method for operating a multiple clutch transmission and corresponding multiple clutch transmission9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194138 A1Audi AG
- Control tower of a gearbox for road vehicles11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160329 A1Ferrari S.P. A.
- Computer system comprising processing circuitry configured to control gear selection of a powertrain of a vehicle a powertrain a vehicle and a computer-implemented method28 May 2026US 2026/0146668 A1Volvo Truck Corporation
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- Parallel hybrid powertrain for an automotive vehicle162US 5,713,425 AFord Global Technologies, LLC · 1998
- Automatic transmission for vehicle156US 6,375,592 B1Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 2002
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