F16K 99/0061
Actuated by an expanding gas or liquid volume
Official title: {actuated by an expanding gas or liquid volume}
F16K99/0061 (Actuated by an expanding gas or liquid volume) appears on 112 US grants and 130 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 130
- Assignees
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- 180
- Latest grant
- 24 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of making an integrated, microminiature electric-to-fluidic valve283US 4,966,646 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford University · 1990
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- Thermal microvalves in a fluid flow method214US 6,048,734 AThe Regents of the University of Michigan · 2000
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