H02N 1/008
Laterally driven motors
Official title: {Laterally driven motors, e.g. of the comb-drive type}
H02N1/008 (Laterally driven motors) appears on 386 US grants and 357 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H02N- Granted patents
- 386
- Published applications
- 357
- Assignees
- 174
- Inventors
- 604
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2024 | 18 | 11 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8 |
| 2026 | 8 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Laterally driven resonant microstructures419US 5,025,346 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1991
- Capacitance based tunable micromechanical resonators211US 5,640,133 ACornell Research Foundation, Inc. · 1997
- Multistable tunable micromechanical resonators183US 5,914,553 ACornell Research Foundation, Inc. · 1999
- Flying magneto-optical head with a steerable mirror153US 6,058,094 ASeagate Technology LLC · 2000
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