F16K 17/32
Acting on a servo-mechanism or on a catch-releasing mechanism
Official title: acting on a servo-mechanism or on a catch-releasing mechanism
F16K17/32 (Acting on a servo-mechanism or on a catch-releasing mechanism) appears on 86 US grants and 61 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
- 86
- Published applications
- 61
- Assignees
- 42
- Inventors
- 153
- Latest grant
- 23 Dec 2025
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| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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