H01H 37/46
Actuated due to expansion or contraction of a solid
Official title: actuated due to expansion or contraction of a solid (deflection of a bimetallic element H01H37/52)
H01H37/46 (Actuated due to expansion or contraction of a solid) appears on 120 US grants and 62 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01H- Granted patents
- 120
- Published applications
- 62
- Assignees
- 75
- Inventors
- 184
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 6 | 0 |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986 | 5 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015 | 2 | 4 |
| 2016 | 3 | 7 |
| 2017 | 3 | 2 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Breaker, safety circuit and secondary battery pack28 Jul 2026US 12,695,038 B2Bourns, Inc.
- Phase change nano electro-mechanical relay12 Aug 2025US 12,387,891 B2Carnegie Mellon University
- Zero-power wireless system for crop water content monitoring12 Mar 2024US 11,927,538 B2Northeastern University
- Negative thermal expansion current interrupter12 Dec 2023US 11,842,868 B2American Lithium Energy Corporation
- Phase change nano electro-mechanical relay29 Aug 2023US 11,742,162 B2Carnegie Mellon University
- Breaker, Safety circuit and Secondary battery pack2 Jan 2025US 2025/0006443 A1Bourns, Inc.
- Breaker, Safety Circuit and Secondary Battery Pack2 Jan 2025US 2025/0006444 A1Bourns, Inc.
- Negative thermal expansion current interrupter29 Feb 2024US 2024/0071700 A1American Lithium Energy Corporation
- Phase change nano electro-mechanical relay22 Feb 2024US 2024/0062975 A1Carnegie Mellon University
- Thermal fuse28 Dec 2023US 2023/0420204 A1Dragonfly Energy Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Steerable and aimable catheter316US 4,543,090 A1985
- Steerable and aimable catheter171US 4,601,705 A1986
- Steerable and aimable catheter150US 4,758,222 A1988
- Variable shape guide apparatus118US 4,944,727 ACatheter Research, Inc. · 1990
- Variable shape guide apparatus94US 5,055,101 ACatheter Research, Inc. · 1991