F21S 43/243
Emitting light from one or more of its extremities
Official title: emitting light from one or more of its extremities
F21S43/243 (Emitting light from one or more of its extremities) appears on 360 US grants and 389 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F21S- Granted patents
- 360
- Published applications
- 389
- Assignees
- 130
- Inventors
- 748
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 3 | 1 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 |
| 2005 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5 |
| 2007 | 3 | 7 |
| 2008 | 6 | 10 |
| 2009 | 6 | 6 |
| 2010 | 5 | 8 |
| 2011 | 4 | 6 |
| 2012 | 2 | 12 |
| 2013 | 10 | 12 |
| 2014 | 12 | 21 |
| 2015 | 10 | 21 |
| 2016 | 15 | 28 |
| 2017 | 25 | 38 |
| 2018 | 27 | 28 |
| 2019 | 48 | 33 |
| 2020 | 37 | 22 |
| 2021 | 22 | 15 |
| 2022 | 22 | 21 |
| 2023 | 21 | 19 |
| 2024 | 22 | 23 |
| 2025 | 22 | 23 |
| 2026 | 13 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Vehicle lamp16 Jun 2026US 12,655,954 B2Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
- Lamp for vehicle9 Jun 2026US 12,650,211 B2Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
- Vehicle lamp17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276169 A1Nichia Corporation
- Lighting apparatus for vehicles23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210519 A1Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
- Light module for a motor vehicle16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202028 A1Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
- Vehicle lamp16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202033 A1Ichikoh Industries, Ltd.
- Turn lamp2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185676 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vehicle lighting having remote light source298US 5,709,453 A1998
- Collimating lamp244US 6,527,411 B1Visteon Corporation · 2003
- Exterior rearview mirror for vehicles, preferably motor vehicles222US 6,139,171 AReitter & Schefenacker GmbH & Co. KG · 2000
- Light expanding system for producing a linear or planar light beam from a point-like light source189US 5,835,661 A1998
- Light expanding system for producing a linear or planar light beam from a point-like light source154US 5,506,929 AClio Technologies, Inc. · 1996