F16K 11/056
With ball-shaped valve members
Official title: with ball-shaped valve members
F16K11/056 (With ball-shaped valve members) appears on 81 US grants and 72 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
- 81
- Published applications
- 72
- Assignees
- 86
- Inventors
- 200
- Latest grant
- 16 Dec 2025
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 2 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 1 | 4 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 8 | 7 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7 |
| 2021 | 5 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 |
| 2026 | 0 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Proportional valve assembly for refrigerant16 Dec 2025US 12,498,151 B2ECO Holding 1 GmbH
- Proportional valve assembly for refrigerants9 Sep 2025US 12,410,955 B2ECO Holding 1 GmbH
- Solenoid valve2 Sep 2025US 12,404,947 B2
- Microfluidic systems for multiple bioreactors and applications of same4 Feb 2025US 12,214,348 B2Vanderbilt University
- Valve assembly for a refrigerant circuit6 Aug 2024US 12,055,229 B2Audi AG
- Dosing apparatus25 Jun 2026US 2026/0176807 A1Herbert Saier GmbH
- Valve assembly and a heat pump system including the same18 Jun 2026US 2026/0168710 A1Hyundai Motor Company
- Fluid circuit system12 Feb 2026US 2026/0043484 A1Denso Corporation
- Three-way valve25 Sep 2025US 2025/0297685 A1
- Proportional valve assembly for refrigerant15 Feb 2024US 2024/0052934 A1ECO Holding 1 GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Flow valve38US 5,791,317 AVDO Adolf Schindling AG · 1998
- Multi-way valve and water purifier using the same31US 5,989,425 AToray Industries, Inc. · 1999
- Multi-chamber adsorbent gas fractionator with non-jamming effluent flow control valve28US 4,162,146 APall Corporation · 1979
- Cleaning apparatus for components28US 4,365,383 AElan Pressure Clean Limited · 1982
- Microvalve device suitable for controlling a variable displacement compressor28US 7,210,502 B2Microstaq, Inc. · 2007