F17C 5/06
Methods or apparatus for filling containers with liquefied, solidified, or compressed gases
Official title: for filling with compressed gases
F17C5/06 (Methods or apparatus for filling containers with liquefied, solidified, or compressed gases) appears on 924 US grants and 1,119 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F17C- Granted patents
- 924
- Published applications
- 1,119
- Assignees
- 542
- Inventors
- 1,968
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 22 | 15 |
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| 2006 | 9 | 24 |
| 2007 | 10 | 39 |
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| 2019 | 59 | 51 |
| 2020 | 43 | 65 |
| 2021 | 61 | 65 |
| 2022 | 71 | 70 |
| 2023 | 37 | 70 |
| 2024 | 56 | 75 |
| 2025 | 59 | 61 |
| 2026 | 33 | 48 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Apparatus, control system and process for rapid fuel dispensing29 Sep 2026US 12,747,830 B2Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
- Hydrogen gas filling device15 Sep 2026US 12,736,182 B2Eneos Corporation
- Hydrogen transport, distribution and storage system, method and apparatus8 Sep 2026US 12,729,814 B2H2C Safety Pipe, Inc.
- Nitrox-mixtures production machine1 Sep 2026US 12,723,714 B2Nardi Compressori S.R.L.
- Hydrogen gas supply method and hydrogen gas supply system1 Sep 2026US 12,723,716 B2Mitsui E&S Co., Ltd.
- Hydrogen generation apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307037 A1
- A hydrogen refueling system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309277 A1Cavendish Hydrogen A/S
- Method and System For Compact and Hyper Mobile Recompression8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309279 A1Clean Recompression, LLC
- Method and system for storing hydrogen1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298411 A1
- Method for estimating volume and pressure in a tank, and pressure losses connected with a dispensing station24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287407 A1L Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude et L'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
Most cited
By later US patents
- Self-contained mobile fueling station157US 6,786,245 B1Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. · 2004
- Method and apparatus for compressing gases109US 4,515,516 AChampion, Perrine & Associates · 1985
- Compressed-air storage installation100US 4,147,204 ABBC Brown, Boveri & Company, Limited · 1979
- Method and apparatus for compressing gases with a liquid system96US 5,169,295 ATren Fuels, Inc. · 1992
- System and method for dispensing pressurized gas91US 5,628,349 APinnacle CNG Systems, LLC · 1997