B22D 11/04
Into open-ended moulds
Official title: into open-ended moulds (B22D11/06, B22D11/07 take precedence; plants for continuous casting, e.g. for upwardly drawing the strand B22D11/14)
B22D11/04 (Into open-ended moulds) appears on 967 US grants and 595 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B22D- Granted patents
- 967
- Published applications
- 595
- Assignees
- 419
- Inventors
- 1,884
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 12 | 25 |
| 2026 | 9 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B22D 11/055Cooling the moulds163
- B22D 11/041For vertical casting154
- B22D 11/049For direct chill casting153
- B22D 11/053Means for oscillating the moulds118
- B22D 11/045For horizontal casting104
- B22D 11/059Mould materials or platings99
- B22D 11/05Into moulds having adjustable walls89
- B22D 11/0401Moulds provided with a feed head81
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Casting apparatus114US 6,848,497 B2Pyrotek, Inc. · 2005
- Continuous casting of bulk solidifying amorphous alloys92US 7,575,040 B2Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc. · 2009
- Process for direct chill casting of metals59US 4,157,728 AShowa Denko K. K. · 1979
- Metal mold for manufacturing amorphous alloy and molded product of amorphous alloy57US 6,267,171 B1Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. · 2001
- Direct chill metal casting apparatus and technique49US 4,598,763 AWagstaff Engineering, Inc. · 1986