H01H 35/14
Switches operated by change of acceleration
Official title: Switches operated by change of acceleration, e.g. by shock or vibration, inertia switch {(wherein the liquid constitutes a contact of the switch H01H29/002)}
H01H35/14 (Switches operated by change of acceleration) appears on 629 US grants and 261 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01H- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
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| 2022 | 5 | 7 |
| 2023 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H01H 35/141Details123
- H01H 35/144Operated by vibration93
- H01H 35/147The switch being of the reed switch type60
- H01H 35/146Operated by plastic deformation or rupture of structurally associated elements37
- H01H 35/145Operated by a particular acceleration-time function23
- H01H 35/148Making use of a rolamite sensor7
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