H01H 3/32

Driving mechanisms, i.e. for transmitting driving force to the contacts

Official title: Driving mechanisms, i.e. for transmitting driving force to the contacts (snap-action arrangements H01H5/00; introducing a predetermined time delay H01H7/00)

H01H3/32 (Driving mechanisms, i.e. for transmitting driving force to the contacts) appears on 1,275 US grants and 1,034 published applications in this corpus.

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Year	Granted patents	Published applications
1976	11	0
1977	10	0
1978	7	0
1979	9	0
1980	9	0
1981	5	0
1982	13	0
1983	10	0
1984	14	0
1985	12	0
1986	25	0
1987	22	0
1988	22	0
1989	12	0
1990	6	0
1991	15	0
1992	9	0
1993	15	0
1994	13	0
1995	10	0
1996	12	0
1997	11	0
1998	22	0
1999	25	0
2000	22	0
2001	14	5
2002	16	13
2003	22	17
2004	25	24
2005	14	27
2006	21	24
2007	14	23
2008	24	36
2009	21	33
2010	27	36
2011	18	30
2012	37	28
2013	35	52
2014	35	48
2015	48	82
2016	71	47
2017	61	57
2018	51	43
2019	59	67
2020	59	56
2021	51	44
2022	45	61
2023	51	67
2024	51	40
2025	46	40
2026	18	34

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