B22D 11/081
Starter bars
Official title: {Starter bars}
B22D11/081 (Starter bars) appears on 56 US grants and 23 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B22D- Granted patents
- 56
- Published applications
- 23
- Assignees
- 41
- Inventors
- 127
- Latest grant
- 26 Aug 2025
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| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Bottom block for direct chill casting26 Aug 2025US 12,397,342 B2Oculatus LLC
- Starting head for a continuous casting mold and associated method2 Jul 2024US 12,023,727 B2Wagstaff, Inc.
- Determining a presence or absence of water in a DC casting starter block : method and direct chill apparatus claims22 Feb 2022US 11,255,712 B2Norsk Hydro ASA
- Method and device for producing foundry ingots from metal1 Jun 2021US 11,020,795 B2Inteco Melting and Casting Technologies GmbH
- System, apparatus, and method for mold starter block alignment29 Dec 2020US 10,875,087 B1Wagstaff, Inc.
- Bottom block for direct chill casting29 Jan 2026US 2026/0027612 A1Oculatus LLC
- Continuous casting start timing determination method, continuous casting facility operation method, slab manufacturing method, determining device, continuous casting start determination system, and display terminal device3 Apr 2025US 2025/0108433 A1Jfe Steel Corporation
- Bottom block for direct chill casting16 Jan 2025US 2025/0018464 A1Oculatus LLC
- Starting head for a continuous casting mold and associated method17 Nov 2022US 2022/0362838 A1Wagstaff, Inc.
- Determining a presence or absence of water in a dc casting starter block : method and direct chill apparatus claims4 Nov 2021US 2021/0341332 A1Norsk Hydro ASA
Most cited
By later US patents
- Continuous casting apparatus15US 5,947,183 AVAW Aluminium AG · 1999
- Method of continuous casting of ingots11US 4,073,333 A1978
- Bottom block for D.C. casting of aluminum rolling ingots8US 3,948,310 AKaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation · 1976
- Starter bar head for a continuous caster7US 5,456,307 AVoest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau GmbH · 1995
- Dummy bar for continuous casting equipment6US 4,383,571 AGladwin Corporation · 1983