G12B 1/00
Sensitive elements capable of producing movement or displacement for purposes not limited
Official title: Sensitive elements capable of producing movement or displacement for purposes not limited to measurement; Associated transmission mechanisms therefor
G12B1/00 (Sensitive elements capable of producing movement or displacement for purposes not limited) appears on 79 US grants and 17 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G12B- Granted patents
- 79
- Published applications
- 17
- Assignees
- 53
- Inventors
- 107
- Latest grant
- 5 Aug 2025
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| 2024 | 4 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Device for rotating a specimen about two orthogonal axes5 Aug 2025US 12,379,335 B2Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin FüR Materialien Und Energie GmbH
- Positioning system with flexible band and rollers1 Oct 2024US 12,106,824 B2Physik Instrumente (Pi) GmbH & Co. KG
- Decoupled XY parallel micro-positioning stage1 Oct 2024US 12,106,999 B2Guangdong University of Technology
- High-temperature bimetal2 Jul 2024US 12,027,234 B2Proterial, Ltd.
- Thermosensitive deformation apparatus9 Apr 2024US 11,955,205 B2Proterial, Ltd.
- Thermally Responsive Element And Manufacturing Method For The Same26 Sep 2024US 2024/0319018 A1Uchiya Thermostat Co., Ltd.
- Smart mechanical metamaterials with tunable stimuli-responsive expansion coefficients16 May 2024US 2024/0161862 A1Northeastern University
- Device for rotating a specimen about two orthogonal axes25 Jan 2024US 2024/0027372 A1Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin FüR Materialien Und Energie GmbH
- Methods for controlling sma actuators29 Dec 2022US 2022/0412326 A1Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
- High-temperature bimetal17 Feb 2022US 2022/0051750 A1Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Shape memory alloy actuators and control methods149US 6,574,958 B1NanoMuscle, Inc. · 2003
- Method and apparatus for fabrication of micro-structures using non-planar, exposure beam lithography138US 5,106,455 ASarcos Group · 1992
- Medical tube92US 4,776,844 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1988
- Method and apparatus for fabrication of thin film semiconductor devices using non-planar, exposure beam lithography60US 5,269,882 ASarcos Group · 1993
- Micro-actuator51US 5,344,117 ARobert Bosch GmbH · 1994