H02S 40/10
Cleaning arrangements
H02S40/10 (Cleaning arrangements) appears on 348 US grants and 611 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H02S- Granted patents
- 348
- Published applications
- 611
- Assignees
- 284
- Inventors
- 1,003
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 5 |
| 2010 | 0 | 10 |
| 2011 | 3 | 26 |
| 2012 | 3 | 10 |
| 2013 | 5 | 20 |
| 2014 | 12 | 24 |
| 2015 | 13 | 32 |
| 2016 | 11 | 24 |
| 2017 | 15 | 45 |
| 2018 | 28 | 38 |
| 2019 | 35 | 47 |
| 2020 | 40 | 48 |
| 2021 | 27 | 50 |
| 2022 | 26 | 41 |
| 2023 | 24 | 39 |
| 2024 | 35 | 53 |
| 2025 | 43 | 59 |
| 2026 | 21 | 37 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Transport apparatus and method for cleaning robot of photovoltaic module6 Oct 2026US 12,756,356 B2Lanfang Sol-Bright New Energy Technology Co. Ltd.
- Snow fence for a solar panel6 Oct 2026US RE51,059 E1Vermont Slate & Copper Services, Inc.
- Solar energy storage and aquifer management15 Sep 2026US 12,738,890 B2Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- System and method for determination of degradation loss on solar panels of photovoltaic (PV) power plant11 Aug 2026US 12,706,566 B2
- Construction method and system of a solar cell power plant4 Aug 2026US 12,700,822 B2
- Robotic cleaning of photovoltaic modules24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291428 A1
- Solar tracker defect inspection using robotic procured data24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291429 A1
- Solar site network24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291430 A1Array Tech, Inc.
- Transparent protective coverage using continuous laminar flow for solar panels in remote platforms17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280480 A1Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Solar panel system10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269777 A1Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
Most cited
By later US patents
- Photovoltaic power generating system230US 6,093,885 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2000
- Roofing products, photovoltaic roofing elements and systems using them93US 8,793,940 B2CertainTeed Corporation · 2014
- Roofing products, photovoltaic roofing elements and systems using them88US 9,217,584 B2CertainTeed Corporation · 2015
- Terrestrial photovoltaic solar cell panel55US 4,063,963 A1977
- Photovoltaic panel cleaning machine34US 9,130,502 B1King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · 2015