F41J 5/04
Electric hit-indicating systems
Official title: Electric hit-indicating systems; Detecting hits by actuation of electric contacts or switches
F41J5/04 (Electric hit-indicating systems) appears on 228 US grants and 221 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41J- Granted patents
- 228
- Published applications
- 221
- Assignees
- 130
- Inventors
- 462
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 5 | 6 |
| 2003 | 1 | 7 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 6 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5 |
| 2007 | 2 | 9 |
| 2008 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 3 | 6 |
| 2011 | 6 | 4 |
| 2012 | 3 | 9 |
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| 2016 | 5 | 23 |
| 2017 | 11 | 24 |
| 2018 | 13 | 7 |
| 2019 | 11 | 17 |
| 2020 | 10 | 10 |
| 2021 | 10 | 14 |
| 2022 | 4 | 13 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4 |
| 2024 | 7 | 9 |
| 2025 | 4 | 5 |
| 2026 | 9 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- F41J 5/056Switch actuation by hit-generated mechanical vibration of the target body57
- F41J 5/052Targets comprising a plurality of electric contacts, each corresponding to a discrete55
- F41J 5/041Targets comprising two sets of electric contacts forming a coordinate system grid22
- F41J 5/044Targets having two or more electrically-conductive layers for short- circuiting by penetrating22
- F41J 5/042Targets comprising a system of electric contacts lying in the same plane7
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