H02H 3/085
Making use of a thermal sensor
Official title: {making use of a thermal sensor, e.g. thermistor, heated by the excess current (also responsive to the temperature of the protected device H02H5/041, thermal images H02H6/00)}
H02H3/085 (Making use of a thermal sensor) appears on 227 US grants and 237 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H02H- Granted patents
- 227
- Published applications
- 237
- Assignees
- 145
- Inventors
- 476
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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| 2023 | 18 | 8 |
| 2024 | 17 | 14 |
| 2025 | 11 | 11 |
| 2026 | 8 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Motor control apparatus with parallel input, serial output signal conditioning means109US 4,434,390 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1984
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