B23B 39/14
General-purpose boring or drilling machines or devices: with special provision to enable
Official title: with special provision to enable the machine or the drilling or boring head to be moved into any desired position, e.g. with respect to immovable work
B23B39/14 (General-purpose boring or drilling machines or devices: with special provision to enable) appears on 88 US grants and 108 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23B- Granted patents
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- 25 Aug 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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- Drilling device28 Jul 2026US 12,691,505 B2Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Overhead drill and anchor press5 May 2026US 12,617,026 B2
- Snake-like robot23 Dec 2025US 12,502,764 B2FLX Solutions, Inc.
- Fully steerable flexible curved-drilling robot device, system and method7 Oct 2025US 12,433,608 B2Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Systems and Methods for Downward Drilling Robotic Systems27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251050 A1August Robotics Limited
- Robot-assisted tool systems and methods20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241578 A1The Boeing Company
- Autonomous or Manual Work Device, System, and Method for at least Partly Automatically Machining an Object11 Jun 2026US 2026/0158606 A1Robert Bosch GmbH
- Portable boring machine28 May 2026US 2026/0145248 A1Sir Meccanica S.r.l.
- System for working a workpiece comprising a machine tool and corresponding working method23 Apr 2026US 2026/0108956 A1Cybermeca
Most cited
By later US patents
- Compliance mechanism104US 4,332,066 AGeneral Dynamics Corporation · 1982
- Self normalizing drill head54US 5,848,859 AThe Boeing Company · 1998
- Crawler robot equipped with a work unit, and governing equipment for such crawler robots30US 8,019,472 B2Airbus Operations, S L. · 2011
- Remote-controlled work robot27US 8,316,961 B2Ntn Corporation · 2012
- Attachment for a rotary drive machine20US 4,118,141 A1978