G04G 17/06
Electric connectors
Official title: Electric connectors, e.g. conductive elastomers
G04G17/06 (Electric connectors) appears on 252 US grants and 303 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G04G- Granted patents
- 252
- Published applications
- 303
- Assignees
- 104
- Inventors
- 640
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 3 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 |
| 2006 | 2 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 5 |
| 2013 | 3 | 9 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11 |
| 2016 | 14 | 24 |
| 2017 | 20 | 24 |
| 2018 | 22 | 24 |
| 2019 | 15 | 25 |
| 2020 | 19 | 25 |
| 2021 | 16 | 16 |
| 2022 | 19 | 30 |
| 2023 | 22 | 26 |
| 2024 | 17 | 17 |
| 2025 | 19 | 31 |
| 2026 | 14 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Conductive elastomeric contacts and connectors186US 3,971,610 ATechnical Wire Products, Inc. · 1976
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