H01R 25/162
Electrical connections between or with rails or bus-bars
Official title: {Electrical connections between or with rails or bus-bars (rails having primarily a non electrical function H01R4/64)}
H01R25/162 (Electrical connections between or with rails or bus-bars) appears on 537 US grants and 553 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01R- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 553
- Assignees
- 287
- Inventors
- 1,094
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 19 | 38 |
| 2025 | 26 | 31 |
| 2026 | 17 | 39 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Connector assembly and busbar power connector29 Sep 2026US 12,749,859 B2Bizlink International Corp.
- Bus bar and power electronic device with current shaping terminal connector and method of making a terminal connector22 Sep 2026US 12,744,355 B2Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
- Connection part having double busbars22 Sep 2026US 12,744,356 B2Auto-Kabel Management GmbH
- Conductive terminal assembly and electrical connector18 Aug 2026US 12,712,302 B2Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
- Electrical connector for a substrate support assembly18 Aug 2026US 12,712,311 B2APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Electrical connection unit8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312348 A1Yazaki Corporation
- Electrical connection unit8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312349 A1Yazaki Corporation
- Bus device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290642 A1Schneider Electric (China) Co., Ltd.
- Electrical connection unit17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280207 A1Yazaki Corporation
- Connector combination terminal, connector and connector assembly10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269546 A1Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Decorative lighting system217US 6,183,104 B22001
- Strip lighting212US 6,796,680 B1Lumileds Lighting U.S., LLC · 2004
- Adapter to energize a light rail150US 5,154,641 ALucifer Lighting Company · 1992
- Board mount bus bar contact121US 5,618,187 AThe Whitaker Corporation · 1997
- Modular electrical conductor system113US 4,875,871 ANational Service Industries, Inc. · 1989