B21B 37/16
Control of thickness, width, diameter or other transverse dimensions
Official title: Control of thickness, width, diameter or other transverse dimensions (B21B37/58 takes precedence)
B21B37/16 (Control of thickness, width, diameter or other transverse dimensions) appears on 252 US grants and 186 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B21B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 186
- Assignees
- 141
- Inventors
- 657
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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| 2026 | 9 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Plate crown control device14 Jul 2026US 12,678,846 B2TMEIC Corporation
- Electrode thickness control method and control system14 Jul 2026US 12,683,142 B2Eve Power Co., Ltd.
- Dynamic roll eccentricity identification using extended Kalman filter state estimation and control upgrade for cold rolling mills2 Jun 2026US 12,643,136 B2Honeywell International Inc.
- Tempering-free wear-resistant hot rolled strip and method for producing same26 May 2026US 12,637,745 B2Wuhan Iron and Steel Company Limited
- Thickness controlling method and rigidity monitoring method for rolling mill5 May 2026US 12,617,008 B2TMEIC Corporation
- Operating method of a continuous casting-rolling plant with edger20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241427 A1Primetals Technologies Germany GmbH
- Width prediction method of rough rolled material, width control method of rough rolled material, manufacturing method of hot-rolled steel sheet, and generation method of width prediction model of rough rolled material30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216773 A1Jfe Steel Corporation
- Material control system for cold rolled steel sheets and method for generating material prediction model for cold rolled steel sheets23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211384 A1Posco
- Width prediction method of rough rolled material, width control method of rough rolled material, manufacturing method of hot-rolled steel sheet, and generation method of width prediction model of rough rolled material2 Jul 2026US 2026/0183816 A1Jfe Steel Corporation
- Tension control apparatus18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166608 A1Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Digital computer monitored and/or operated system or process which is structured for operation with an improved automatic programming process and system144US 4,215,406 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1980
- Combined file and directory system for a process control digital computer system95US 4,215,407 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1980
- Digital computer monitored system or process which is configured with the aid of an improved automatic programming system63US 4,227,245 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1980
- Method and apparatus for manufacturing metallic support beams for windscreen wiper blade assemblies40US 5,875,672 A1999
- Predictive control of rolling mills using neural network gauge estimation39US 5,586,221 ASyracuse University · 1996