F16L 41/02
Branch units
Official title: Branch units, e.g. made in one piece, welded, riveted
F16L41/02 (Branch units) appears on 914 US grants and 1,031 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16L- Granted patents
- 914
- Published applications
- 1,031
- Assignees
- 691
- Inventors
- 2,107
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 17 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 11 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 13 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 1 |
| 2002 | 8 | 8 |
| 2003 | 9 | 11 |
| 2004 | 11 | 19 |
| 2005 | 8 | 18 |
| 2006 | 14 | 30 |
| 2007 | 10 | 17 |
| 2008 | 11 | 21 |
| 2009 | 9 | 30 |
| 2010 | 14 | 26 |
| 2011 | 12 | 24 |
| 2012 | 21 | 21 |
| 2013 | 16 | 49 |
| 2014 | 18 | 56 |
| 2015 | 15 | 39 |
| 2016 | 32 | 39 |
| 2017 | 36 | 54 |
| 2018 | 38 | 58 |
| 2019 | 52 | 58 |
| 2020 | 61 | 69 |
| 2021 | 54 | 66 |
| 2022 | 51 | 77 |
| 2023 | 67 | 77 |
| 2024 | 58 | 65 |
| 2025 | 71 | 56 |
| 2026 | 37 | 42 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Pipe fitting6 Oct 2026US 12,753,870 B2Tyco Fire Products LP
- Vee manifold with at least three flow channels6 Oct 2026US 12,753,871 B2Rooftop Research, LLC
- Thermal management module6 Oct 2026US 12,756,034 B2Hanon Systems Efp Deutschland GmbH
- Multi-tire air hose kit29 Sep 2026US 12,747,809 B2
- Connector for flexible tubing used for fluid transport8 Sep 2026US 12,728,252 B2Md Innovate
- Weld cap and plug welds for fluid delivery systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309168 A1Compart Systems Pte. Ltd.
- Filtration manifold with multiple ports8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309264 A1Midea Group Co., Ltd.
- Fasteners for a manifold1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298388 A1Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc.
- Thermal Distributor17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276124 A1
- Pigging, a manifold valve block and fluid flow control10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266163 A1Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Horn shaped multi-inlet pipe fitting540US 4,181,330 A1980
- Opthalmic fluid flow control system206US 4,935,005 ANestle S.A. · 1990
- Y-branch splittable connector187US 6,619,697 B2NKF Kabel B.V. · 2003
- Systems and methods for particle focusing in microchannels185US 8,186,913 B2The General Hospital Corporation · 2012
- Frac manifold missile and fitting148US 10,982,523 B1KHOLLE Magnolia 2015, LLC · 2021