H03B
Generation of oscillations, directly or by frequency-changing, by circuits employing active elements
Official title: GENERATION OF OSCILLATIONS, DIRECTLY OR BY FREQUENCY-CHANGING, BY CIRCUITS EMPLOYING ACTIVE ELEMENTS WHICH OPERATE IN A NON-SWITCHING MANNER; GENERATION OF NOISE BY SUCH CIRCUITS (generators adapted for electrophonic musical instruments G10H; masers or lasers H01S; generation of oscillations in plasma H05H)
H03B (Generation of oscillations, directly or by frequency-changing, by circuits employing active elements) appears on 8,089 US grants and 5,965 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03B- Granted patents
- 8,089
- Published applications
- 5,965
- Assignees
- 1,938
- Inventors
- 11,034
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 73 | 0 |
| 1977 | 82 | 0 |
| 1978 | 84 | 0 |
| 1979 | 45 | 0 |
| 1980 | 44 | 0 |
| 1981 | 67 | 0 |
| 1982 | 62 | 0 |
| 1983 | 39 | 0 |
| 1984 | 56 | 0 |
| 1985 | 77 | 0 |
| 1986 | 114 | 0 |
| 1987 | 89 | 0 |
| 1988 | 72 | 0 |
| 1989 | 87 | 0 |
| 1990 | 79 | 0 |
| 1991 | 83 | 0 |
| 1992 | 110 | 0 |
| 1993 | 83 | 0 |
| 1994 | 79 | 0 |
| 1995 | 102 | 0 |
| 1996 | 102 | 0 |
| 1997 | 90 | 0 |
| 1998 | 147 | 0 |
| 1999 | 115 | 0 |
| 2000 | 114 | 0 |
| 2001 | 159 | 60 |
| 2002 | 143 | 182 |
| 2003 | 181 | 185 |
| 2004 | 197 | 226 |
| 2005 | 164 | 242 |
| 2006 | 220 | 245 |
| 2007 | 218 | 225 |
| 2008 | 179 | 250 |
| 2009 | 198 | 244 |
| 2010 | 222 | 206 |
| 2011 | 184 | 207 |
| 2012 | 232 | 210 |
| 2013 | 199 | 247 |
| 2014 | 260 | 302 |
| 2015 | 311 | 274 |
| 2016 | 411 | 308 |
| 2017 | 245 | 303 |
| 2018 | 196 | 308 |
| 2019 | 352 | 305 |
| 2020 | 435 | 331 |
| 2021 | 295 | 218 |
| 2022 | 248 | 251 |
| 2023 | 245 | 204 |
| 2024 | 188 | 170 |
| 2025 | 189 | 151 |
| 2026 | 123 | 111 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
- H03B 5/00Generation of oscillations using amplifier with regenerative feedback from output to input5,593
- H03B 2200/00Indexing scheme relating to details of oscillators covered by h03bIndexing code1,961
- H03B 2201/00Aspects of oscillators relating to varying the frequency of the oscillationsIndexing code972
- H03B 19/00Generation of oscillations by non-regenerative frequency multiplication or division of a signal610
- H03B 27/00Generation of oscillations providing a plurality of outputs of the same frequency443
- H03B 21/00Generation of oscillations by combining unmodulated signals of different frequencies362
- H03B 9/00Generation of oscillations using transit-time effects346
- H03B 1/00Details330
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- H03B 28/00Generation of oscillations by methods not covered by groups h03b5/00 - h03b27/00242
- H03B 15/00Generation of oscillations using galvano-magnetic devices236
- H03B 7/00Generation of oscillations using active element having a negative resistance between two227
- H03B 2202/00Aspects of oscillators relating to reduction of undesired oscillationsIndexing code199
- H03B 17/00Generation of oscillations using radiation source and detector182
- H03B 23/00Generation of oscillations periodically swept over a predetermined frequency range152
- H03B 29/00Generation of noise currents and voltages137
- H03B 11/00Generation of oscillations using a shock-excited tuned circuit52
- H03B 25/00Simultaneous generation by a free-running oscillator of oscillations having different frequencies35
- H03B 13/00Generation of oscillations using deflection of electron beam in a cathode-ray tube4
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic device using magnetic components385US 5,695,864 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1997
- Ultrasonic wave oscillator circuit with output meter350US 4,302,728 AOhtake Works Company, Ltd. · 1981
- Digital radio frequency receiver350US 4,893,316 AMotorola, Inc. · 1990
- System and method for dual-band antenna matching340US 7,180,467 B2Kyocera Wireless Corp. · 2007
- Method and device relating to supervision and control of an oscillator signal327US 6,147,560 ATelefonaktiebolget LM Ericsson · 2000