F24S 40/80
Accommodating differential expansion of solar collector elements
F24S40/80 (Accommodating differential expansion of solar collector elements) appears on 341 US grants and 450 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F24S- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 450
- Assignees
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- Inventors
- 822
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2022 | 2 | 5 |
| 2023 | 10 | 20 |
| 2024 | 10 | 12 |
| 2025 | 8 | 18 |
| 2026 | 7 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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