H03K 17/94
Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking: characterised by
Official title: characterised by the way in which the control signals are generated
H03K17/94 (Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking: characterised by) appears on 6,784 US grants and 6,645 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Electronic devices with sensors29 Sep 2026US 12,748,309 B2Apple Inc.
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- Vehicle electrical switch assembly22 Sep 2026US 12,744,530 B2Nissan North America, Inc.
- Input device15 Sep 2026US 12,738,939 B2Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
- Capacitive switch structure for nondiscrete, tactile and nontactile switches with customizable minimum activation thresholds8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309556 A1Nitto Bend Technologies, Inc.
- Switch device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312584 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
- Switch device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312585 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
- Touch switch1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303094 A1MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
- Device having integrated interface system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277330 A1Apple Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input3,711US 6,323,846 B1University of Delaware · 2001
- Cordless, battery operated surical tool1,621US 5,747,953 AStryker Corporation · 1998
- Rocker switch with centering torsion spring1,233US 6,566,619 B2ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. · 2003
- Multi-function surgical device control system1,186US 5,712,460 ALinvatec Corporation · 1998
- Human-machine dialog system979US 9,411,370 B2Schneider Electric Industries SAS · 2016