F16K 99/0049
Using an electroactive polymer [eap]
Official title: {using an electroactive polymer [EAP]}
F16K99/0049 (Using an electroactive polymer [eap]) appears on 28 US grants and 35 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
- 28
- Published applications
- 35
- Assignees
- 31
- Inventors
- 96
- Latest grant
- 21 Oct 2025
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Recent patents
- Electrorheological fluid structure with attached conductor and method of fabrication21 Oct 2025US 12,446,659 B2NIKE, Inc.
- Wearable glove with a plurality of fluidic actuators and a plurality of fluidic control devices and system of use thereof14 Oct 2025US 12,443,281 B2Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Electrorheological fluid structure with attached conductor and method of fabrication12 Mar 2024US 11,925,235 B2NIKE, Inc.
- Wearable device with fluid-based circuits and stretch-sensitive materials, and systems including the wearable device used in conjunction with a virtual-reality headset2 May 2023US 11,640,206 B1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Wearable gloves including a fabric material worn by a user, a position sensor, and a matrix with a plurality of voids that each include at least one fluidic actuator31 Jan 2023US 11,567,576 B2Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Actuated elastic valves27 Mar 2025US 2025/0102070 A1Sartorius Stedim Fmt SAS
- Fluid component, vehicle comfort system, and method for operating such a system19 Sep 2024US 2024/0310227 A1Faurecia Autositze GmbH
- Electrorheological Fluid Structure with Attached Conductor and Method of Fabrication25 Jul 2024US 2024/0245167 A1NIKE, Inc.
- Haptic Device with Multiple Fluidically-Controlled Voids18 Jan 2024US 2024/0019934 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Microfluidic valve, method for its manufacture, and uses thereof17 Aug 2023US 2023/0258164 A1Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (Csic)
Most cited
By later US patents
- Microfluidic systems with inter-channel impedances67US 6,755,211 B1Nanostream, Inc. · 2004
- Valves activated by electrically active polymers or by shape-memory materials, device containing same and method for using same60US 6,994,314 B2Biomerieux S. A. · 2006
- Fluidic impedances in microfluidic system55US 6,561,208 B1Nanostream, Inc. · 2003
- Electroactive polymer devices for controlling fluid flow38US 7,971,850 B2SRI International · 2011
- Electroactive polymer devices for controlling fluid flow20US 7,537,197 B2SRI International · 2009