F24S 2030/16
Hinged elements
Official title: {Hinged elements; Pin connections}
F24S2030/16 (Hinged elements) appears on 163 US grants and 191 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F24S- Granted patents
- 163
- Published applications
- 191
- Assignees
- 128
- Inventors
- 396
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 9 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 3 |
| 2004 | 2 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 4 |
| 2007 | 2 | 5 |
| 2008 | 1 | 6 |
| 2009 | 1 | 13 |
| 2010 | 5 | 11 |
| 2011 | 2 | 19 |
| 2012 | 7 | 16 |
| 2013 | 11 | 13 |
| 2014 | 8 | 15 |
| 2015 | 10 | 17 |
| 2016 | 14 | 11 |
| 2017 | 11 | 7 |
| 2018 | 7 | 8 |
| 2019 | 4 | 10 |
| 2020 | 6 | 7 |
| 2021 | 8 | 3 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 3 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Solar tracker with articulated shaft8 Jan 2026US 2026/0012128 A1Soltec Innovations, S.L.
- Solar energy system on land and water1 Jan 2026US 2026/0005643 A1SINN Power GmbH
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Foldable low concentration solar array143US 5,520,747 AAstro Aerospace Corporation · 1996
- Inclined photovoltaic assembly140US 6,809,251 B2PowerLight Corporation · 2004
- Solar generator with electrically conducting hinges125US 6,320,114 B1DaimlerChrysler AG · 2001
- Mounting assembly for arrays and other surface-mounted equipment93US 7,857,269 B2PVT Solar, Inc. · 2010
- Mechanism for mounting solar modules85US 8,344,239 B2PVT Solar, Inc. · 2013