H05K
Printed circuits
Official title: Printed circuits; casings or constructional details of electric apparatus; manufacture of assemblages of electrical components
H05K (Printed circuits) appears on 138,973 US grants and 140,809 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H05K- Granted patents
- 138,973
- Published applications
- 140,809
- Assignees
- 21,528
- Inventors
- 197,161
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 379 | 0 |
| 1977 | 382 | 0 |
| 1978 | 396 | 0 |
| 1979 | 271 | 0 |
| 1980 | 377 | 0 |
| 1981 | 446 | 0 |
| 1982 | 480 | 0 |
| 1983 | 563 | 0 |
| 1984 | 608 | 0 |
| 1985 | 878 | 0 |
| 1986 | 889 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1104 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1083 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1301 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1283 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1412 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1445 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1466 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1471 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1477 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1509 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1492 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2135 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2386 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2651 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3131 | 1208 |
| 2002 | 3162 | 3416 |
| 2003 | 3357 | 3747 |
| 2004 | 3247 | 4245 |
| 2005 | 2691 | 4497 |
| 2006 | 2886 | 4561 |
| 2007 | 2850 | 4701 |
| 2008 | 2687 | 4912 |
| 2009 | 2804 | 5307 |
| 2010 | 3420 | 4755 |
| 2011 | 3481 | 4372 |
| 2012 | 3681 | 4588 |
| 2013 | 3566 | 5807 |
| 2014 | 3815 | 6494 |
| 2015 | 4697 | 6435 |
| 2016 | 5382 | 5945 |
| 2017 | 5664 | 5853 |
| 2018 | 5578 | 6179 |
| 2019 | 6563 | 6938 |
| 2020 | 6387 | 7127 |
| 2021 | 5655 | 6721 |
| 2022 | 5523 | 6871 |
| 2023 | 5301 | 6959 |
| 2024 | 5721 | 7178 |
| 2025 | 5950 | 6530 |
| 2026 | 3890 | 5463 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
- H05K 1/00Printed circuits59,519
- H05K 3/00Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits56,739
- H05K 2201/00Indexing scheme relating to printed circuits covered by h05k1/00Indexing code51,668
- H05K 7/00Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus37,835
- H05K 2203/00Indexing scheme relating to apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits coveredIndexing code23,460
- H05K 5/00Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus16,474
- H05K 9/00Screening of apparatus or components against electric or magnetic fields8,068
- H05K 13/00Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing or adjusting assemblages of electric8,003
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Most cited
By later US patents
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