B23B 5/166
Devices for working electrodes
Official title: {Devices for working electrodes}
B23B5/166 (Devices for working electrodes) appears on 61 US grants and 50 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23B- Granted patents
- 61
- Published applications
- 50
- Assignees
- 25
- Inventors
- 87
- Latest grant
- 3 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Electrode tip dresser and cutter for electrode tip dresser26US 5,332,342 AHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994
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- Electrode tip dresser and holder assembly17US 4,966,504 ASem-Torq, Inc. · 1990
- Electrode tip dresser with vacuum17US 6,106,203 ASemtorq, Inc. · 2000
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