B23B 2260/118
Suction pads or vacuum cups
Official title: Suction pads or vacuum cups, e.g. for attachment of guides to workpieces
B23B2260/118 (Suction pads or vacuum cups) appears on 20 US grants and 19 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Clamping systems and methods for robotic tools5 May 2020US 10,639,804 B2
- Sliding adjustable toggle clamp11 Feb 2020US 10,556,266 B2The Boeing Company
- Systems and methods for automated processing of a workpiece20 Jun 2024US 2024/0198537 A1The Boeing Company
- Support device19 Oct 2023US 2023/0330756 A1Plumbingenuity Limited
- Apparatuses and methods for guiding a drill bit to form a hole25 Nov 2021US 2021/0362879 A1The Boeing Company
- Device and method for performing retrofitting process on a wind turbine blade23 Jul 2020US 2020/0232444 A1Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Sliding adjustable toggle clamp11 Jul 2019US 2019/0210095 A1The Boeing Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Control system and method for a magnetic indexer for high accuracy hole drilling30US 6,927,560 B2The Boeing Company · 2005
- Drill template with integral vacuum attach29US 7,195,429 B2The Boeing Company · 2007
- Vacuum tool fixture28US 6,296,426 B1McDonnell Douglas Corporation · 2001
- Magnetic indexer for high accuracy hole drilling14US 7,498,796 B2The Boeing Company · 2009
- Jig for clamp-positioning single crystal ingot7US 5,205,080 AShin-Etsu Handotai Co., Ltd. · 1993