F17C 5/002
Automated filling apparatus
Official title: {Automated filling apparatus}
F17C5/002 (Automated filling apparatus) appears on 487 US grants and 595 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F17C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 595
- Assignees
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- 946
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Hydrogen gas filling device15 Sep 2026US 12,736,182 B2Eneos Corporation
- Gas filling device15 Sep 2026US 12,736,183 B2Tatsuno Corporation
- Gas filling device8 Sep 2026US 12,729,812 B2Tatsuno Corporation
- Nitrox-mixtures production machine1 Sep 2026US 12,723,714 B2Nardi Compressori S.R.L.
- Hydrogen fuel storage and delivery method to power aircraft1 Sep 2026US 12,723,715 B2Green Grid Inc.
- 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
- Hydrogen fueling module24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287119 A1Bosch Rexroth AG
- Refueling assemblies for fuel tanks, refillable fuel tanks, and associated methods10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266428 A1Ignik Outdoors, Inc.
- Method for refilling a hydrogen tank10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266429 A1Maximator GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Compressed natural gas dispensing system109US 4,527,600 ARockwell International Corporation · 1985
- Transportable hydrogen refueling station106US 6,755,225 B1Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. · 2004
- Method and apparatus for dispensing natural gas86US 5,259,424 ADvco · 1993