H01H 35/006
Switches operated by mechanical overload condition
Official title: {Switches operated by mechanical overload condition, e.g. transmitted force or torque becoming too high}
H01H35/006 (Switches operated by mechanical overload condition) appears on 68 US grants and 35 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01H- Granted patents
- 68
- Published applications
- 35
- Assignees
- 47
- Inventors
- 117
- Latest grant
- 30 Sep 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Pressure-actuated switch for compressors30 Sep 2025US 12,431,307 B2WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG
- Controlling automatic operation of a tailgate responsive to an applied load6 Feb 2024US 11,894,206 B2Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
- Tension sensor16 May 2023US 11,650,115 B2Nemtek (Pty) Ltd
- Axial-force measurement method, tightening determination method, axial-force measurement apparatus, and tightening determination apparatus for bolt25 Oct 2022US 11,480,484 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Electronic device with automatic mode switching20 Sep 2022US 11,449,349 B2Apple Inc.
- Pressure-actuated switch for compressors18 Jan 2024US 2024/0021385 A1WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG
- Controlling automatic operation of a tailgate responsive to an applied load30 Mar 2023US 2023/0100832 A1Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
- Electronic device with automatic mode switching17 Nov 2022US 2022/0365792 A1Apple Inc.
- Tension sensor21 Apr 2022US 2022/0120626 A1Nemtek (Pty) Ltd
- Electronic device with automatic mode switching10 Jun 2021US 2021/0173672 A1Apple Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Overload protection for DC motor-driven linear actuator53US 4,763,219 ATsubakimoto Chain Co. · 1988
- Overload detection mechanism for motor-driven linear actuator52US 4,910,419 ATsubakimoto Chain Co. · 1990
- Electronic device with automatic mode switching38US 9,396,434 B2Apple Inc. · 2016
- Electronic device with automatic mode switching35US 8,385,039 B2Apple Inc. · 2013
- Driving force support for linear actuator33US 4,727,762 ATsubakimoto Chain Co. · 1988