G10K 15/04
Sound-producing devices
Official title: Sound-producing devices (G10K15/02 takes precedence)
G10K15/04 (Sound-producing devices) appears on 590 US grants and 612 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G10K- Granted patents
- 590
- Published applications
- 612
- Assignees
- 404
- Inventors
- 1,366
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 5 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 4 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986 | 7 | 0 |
| 1987 | 10 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 8 | 0 |
| 1990 | 15 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 13 | 0 |
| 1993 | 14 | 0 |
| 1994 | 6 | 0 |
| 1995 | 10 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000 | 8 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 3 |
| 2002 | 10 | 9 |
| 2003 | 9 | 7 |
| 2004 | 2 | 9 |
| 2005 | 9 | 10 |
| 2006 | 11 | 27 |
| 2007 | 10 | 13 |
| 2008 | 10 | 17 |
| 2009 | 8 | 13 |
| 2010 | 7 | 18 |
| 2011 | 6 | 12 |
| 2012 | 13 | 14 |
| 2013 | 12 | 22 |
| 2014 | 9 | 13 |
| 2015 | 18 | 16 |
| 2016 | 15 | 26 |
| 2017 | 20 | 18 |
| 2018 | 18 | 31 |
| 2019 | 29 | 44 |
| 2020 | 33 | 47 |
| 2021 | 31 | 55 |
| 2022 | 34 | 46 |
| 2023 | 33 | 38 |
| 2024 | 38 | 35 |
| 2025 | 33 | 46 |
| 2026 | 15 | 23 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Electric vehicle8 Sep 2026US 12,728,792 B2Tvs Motor Company Limited
- Motor vehicle provided with a sound generation aerodynamic apparatus4 Aug 2026US 12,700,395 B2Ferrari S.P. A.
- Shock wave device21 Jul 2026US 12,685,550 B2BTL Medical Solutions A. S.
- Battery electric vehicle16 Jun 2026US 12,654,564 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Information transmission apparatus9 Jun 2026US 12,649,454 B2Subaru Corporation
- Manually Operated Actuator and Method for Controlling a Manually Operated Actuator8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311675 A1Dr. Ing. h,c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
- Non-transitory computer readable medium for control program, control method and communication terminal10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264476 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Method and system for generating motion sound of a moving virtual industrial device3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260644 A1Siemens Industry Software Inc.
- Sound synthesis system using multiple interactive devices3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260645 A1Harman International Industries, Incorporated
- User apparatus, common apparatus, method thereby, and program27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255118 A1NTT, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Stone disintegrator apparatus729US 4,722,340 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1988
- Device for generating acoustic shock waves, especially for medical applications207US 6,186,963 B1HMT Holding AG · 2001
- Adjustable electrode and related method168US 6,217,531 B1ITS Medical Technologies & Services GmbH · 2001
- Shock wave generating system capable of forming wide concretion-disintegrating region by energizing ring-shaped transducers, and hyperthermia curing system136US 5,524,625 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1996
- Opto-acoustic transducer and telephone receiver131US 4,334,321 A1982