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There are many other Phillips-like but not Phillips head designs in common use, including:

Pozidriv, used on many devices manufactured in the EU.

Phillips ACR which is Phillips with extra ridges for more torque/less stripping

Frearson is used in fine woodworking screws

MorTorque is used in some aerospace applications. Rolls-Royce jet engines are covered with them.

Offset Cruiciform, AKA Torq-set, aka Nazi Screws, were previously common in aviation but are not typically used in new commercial design.

As usual wiki has a pretty decent article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Cruciform...

They missed the offset cruciform tho. https://www.phillips-screw.com/drive_systems/torq-set/



Frearson is also used in most marine applications: https://fairwindfasteners.com/blogs/news/reed-prince-frearso...


They didn't miss it, it's near the end under tamper-resistant for some reason.


"Tamper-resistant" usually just means "normal people won't have a screwdriver for it".




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