F17C 5/00
Methods or apparatus for filling containers with liquefied, solidified, or compressed gases
Official title: Methods or apparatus for filling containers with liquefied, solidified, or compressed gases under pressures (adding propellants to aerosol containers B65B31/00)
F17C5/00 (Methods or apparatus for filling containers with liquefied, solidified, or compressed gases) appears on 1,549 US grants and 1,819 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F17C- Granted patents
- 1,549
- Published applications
- 1,819
- Assignees
- 858
- Inventors
- 3,282
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 8 | 0 |
| 1982 | 7 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 24 | 0 |
| 2001 | 21 | 6 |
| 2002 | 31 | 23 |
| 2003 | 22 | 35 |
| 2004 | 32 | 36 |
| 2005 | 26 | 24 |
| 2006 | 23 | 37 |
| 2007 | 16 | 55 |
| 2008 | 15 | 38 |
| 2009 | 18 | 45 |
| 2010 | 19 | 44 |
| 2011 | 24 | 25 |
| 2012 | 30 | 54 |
| 2013 | 29 | 55 |
| 2014 | 33 | 86 |
| 2015 | 43 | 97 |
| 2016 | 61 | 90 |
| 2017 | 67 | 86 |
| 2018 | 65 | 95 |
| 2019 | 92 | 86 |
| 2020 | 73 | 98 |
| 2021 | 80 | 103 |
| 2022 | 94 | 111 |
| 2023 | 75 | 126 |
| 2024 | 113 | 143 |
| 2025 | 104 | 119 |
| 2026 | 69 | 102 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for storing fluorobutene6 Oct 2026US 12,753,137 B2Resonac Corporation
- Apparatus, control system and process for rapid fuel dispensing29 Sep 2026US 12,747,830 B2Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
- Refillable propane gas tank22 Sep 2026US 12,742,520 B1Caminotek LLC
- Hydrogen gas filling device15 Sep 2026US 12,736,182 B2Eneos Corporation
- Gas filling device15 Sep 2026US 12,736,183 B2Tatsuno Corporation
- Hydrogen generation apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307037 A1
- Ship boil-off gas reliquefaction system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307762 A1Hanwha Ocean Co., Ltd.
- A hydrogen refueling system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309277 A1Cavendish Hydrogen A/S
- Method for filling a fluid storage, fluid discharge device for a fluid or fluid mixture, and associated system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309278 A1
- Method and System For Compact and Hyper Mobile Recompression8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309279 A1Clean Recompression, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Self-contained mobile fueling station157US 6,786,245 B1Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. · 2004
- System for replenishing energy sources onboard different types of automotive vehicles139US 7,602,143 B22009
- Method and system for transporting natural gas to a pipeline111US 4,139,019 ATexas Gas Transport Company · 1979
- Method and apparatus for compressing gases109US 4,515,516 AChampion, Perrine & Associates · 1985
- Compressed natural gas dispensing system109US 4,527,600 ARockwell International Corporation · 1985