F41A 17/00
Safety arrangements
Official title: Safety arrangements, e.g. safeties
F41A17/00 (Safety arrangements) appears on 2,866 US grants and 2,235 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41A- Granted patents
- 2,866
- Published applications
- 2,235
- Assignees
- 863
- Inventors
- 3,349
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 21 | 0 |
| 1977 | 22 | 0 |
| 1978 | 22 | 0 |
| 1979 | 16 | 0 |
| 1980 | 11 | 0 |
| 1981 | 17 | 0 |
| 1982 | 12 | 0 |
| 1983 | 19 | 0 |
| 1984 | 30 | 0 |
| 1985 | 23 | 0 |
| 1986 | 32 | 0 |
| 1987 | 32 | 0 |
| 1988 | 28 | 0 |
| 1989 | 25 | 0 |
| 1990 | 28 | 0 |
| 1991 | 52 | 0 |
| 1992 | 28 | 0 |
| 1993 | 35 | 0 |
| 1994 | 28 | 0 |
| 1995 | 52 | 0 |
| 1996 | 31 | 0 |
| 1997 | 39 | 0 |
| 1998 | 31 | 0 |
| 1999 | 39 | 0 |
| 2000 | 26 | 0 |
| 2001 | 60 | 12 |
| 2002 | 81 | 57 |
| 2003 | 56 | 33 |
| 2004 | 47 | 43 |
| 2005 | 39 | 52 |
| 2006 | 30 | 51 |
| 2007 | 33 | 41 |
| 2008 | 26 | 44 |
| 2009 | 19 | 43 |
| 2010 | 41 | 65 |
| 2011 | 48 | 65 |
| 2012 | 59 | 46 |
| 2013 | 58 | 56 |
| 2014 | 78 | 95 |
| 2015 | 90 | 117 |
| 2016 | 107 | 111 |
| 2017 | 133 | 175 |
| 2018 | 138 | 162 |
| 2019 | 161 | 138 |
| 2020 | 149 | 148 |
| 2021 | 123 | 126 |
| 2022 | 127 | 132 |
| 2023 | 123 | 143 |
| 2024 | 151 | 119 |
| 2025 | 127 | 93 |
| 2026 | 63 | 68 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- F41A 17/06Electric or electromechanical safeties770
- F41A 17/46Trigger safeties, i.e. means for preventing trigger movement651
- F41A 17/34Magazine safeties545
- F41A 17/44Safety plugs291
- F41A 17/64Firing-pin safeties, i.e. means for preventing movement of slidably- mounted strikers244
- F41A 17/74Hammer safeties, i.e. means for preventing the hammer from hitting the cartridge223
- F41A 17/56Sear safeties, i.e. means for rendering ineffective an intermediate lever transmitting trigger219
- F41A 17/02Key-operated safeties168
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- F41A 17/08Safety arrangements: for inhibiting firing in a specified direction166
- F41A 17/42Safeties for locking the breech-block or bolt in a safety position162
- F41A 17/20Grip or stock safeties, i.e. safeties disengaged by clasping the grip or116
- F41A 17/04Safeties of the combination-lock type85
- F41A 17/30Multiple safeties, i.e. one safety element acting on at least one element77
- F41A 17/16Cook-off prevention, i.e. prevention of spontaneous firing of a cartridge by chamber31
- F41A 17/18Hang-fire prevention25
- F41A 17/40Last-round safeties17
- F41A 17/14Double-loading prevention5
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- Firearm with integrated lower receiver components8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309440 A1Xcal IP LLC
- Handgun Safety Device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309443 A1JD Safety Systems LLC
- Linear trigger bolt action firearm8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309444 A1Polaris Capital Corporation
- Safety disassembly lever1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298567 A1HS Produkt D.O.O.
- Magazine catch1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298568 A1Dubravko Jagunic
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By later US patents
- Systems and methods for modular electronic weaponry1,435US 7,778,004 B2TASER International, Inc. · 2010
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- Weapon aiming system183US 5,686,690 AComputing Devices Canada Ltd. · 1997