B04B 1/2016
Driving control or mechanisms
Official title: {Driving control or mechanisms; Arrangement of transmission gearing}
B04B1/2016 (Driving control or mechanisms) appears on 96 US grants and 50 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B04B- Granted patents
- 96
- Published applications
- 50
- Assignees
- 61
- Inventors
- 147
- Latest grant
- 17 Jun 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 1 |
| 2003 | 4 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 5 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 4 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 |
| 2011 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 4 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 |
| 2020 | 4 | 0 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Decanter centrifuges and associated acceleration pipes and methods17 Jun 2025US 12,330,171 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Electronically controlled hydraulic decanter centrifuge22 Apr 2025US 12,280,382 B2Elgin Separation Solutions Industrials, LLC
- Low moisture solids produced from poultry plant sludge by a decanter centrifuge system28 Mar 2023US 11,613,486 B1Southeastern Environmental Services LLC
- Cooling device for a drive of a solid bowl screw centrifuge11 Jan 2022US 11,219,905 B2GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH
- Method and system for separation of suspensions2 Feb 2021US 10,906,820 B2650438 Alberta Ltd.
- Systems and methods for operating a centrifuge system29 May 2025US 2025/0170587 A1National Oilwell Varco, L. P.
- Fixed Cylinder Centrifuge22 Jun 2023US 2023/0191428 A1Chengdu Fushunqi Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd.
- Centrifuge and method for operating a centrifuge25 May 2023US 2023/0158514 A1GEA Mechanical Equipment GmbH
- Electronically Controlled Hydraulic Decanter Centrifuge29 Dec 2022US 2022/0410177 A1Elgin Separation Solutions Industrials, LLC
- Decanter centrifuges and associated acceleration pipes and methods7 Jul 2022US 2022/0212205 A1Mantovani & Vincentini S.r.l.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for controlling and monitoring continuous feed centrifuge98US 5,948,271 ABaker Hughes Incorporated · 1999
- Disc-decanter centrifuge70US 5,364,335 ADorr-Oliver Incorporated · 1994
- Method and apparatus for controlling and monitoring continuous feed centrifuge62US 6,143,183 ABaker Hughes Incorporated · 2000
- Centrifuge control system60US 5,857,955 AM-I Drilling Fluids Company · 1999
- Apparatus for centrifuging a slurry58US 7,387,602 B1Derrick Corporation · 2008