B23C 2220/52
Orbital drilling, i.e. use of a milling cutter moved in a spiral
Official title: Orbital drilling, i.e. use of a milling cutter moved in a spiral path to produce a hole
B23C2220/52 (Orbital drilling, i.e. use of a milling cutter moved in a spiral) appears on 55 US grants and 63 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 21 Jan 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Metal member, processing system, and method for manufacturing metal member21 Jan 2025US 12,202,089 B2Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
- Cutting insert14 May 2024US 11,980,952 B2Tungaloy Corporation
- Orbital drilling device30 Jan 2024US 11,883,890 B2Advanced Electrical Tools
- End mill and drilling method19 Sep 2023US 11,759,870 B2Subaru Corporation
- Mold machining method using end mill11 Jul 2023US 11,697,164 B2Nalux Co., Ltd.
- Method of machining holes and chamfers in ceramic matrix composites25 Jan 2024US 2024/0024963 A1Rolls-Royce High Temperature Composites Inc.
- Portable helical milling unit and eccentricity adjustment method6 Jul 2023US 2023/0211426 A1Dalian University of Technology
- Metal member, processing system, and method for manufacturing metal member20 Oct 2022US 2022/0331924 A1Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd.
- Cutting insert17 Mar 2022US 2022/0080517 A1Tungaloy Corporation
- Helical Milling Tool with Forward-Backward Feeding25 Nov 2021US 2021/0362248 A1Dalian University of Technology
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hand tool apparatus for orbital drilling23US 6,872,036 B2Novator AB · 2005
- Method for producing holes in fibre reinforced composites19US 5,641,252 ANovator AB · 1997
- Hand tool apparatus for orbital drilling15US 6,382,890 B1Novator AB · 2002
- Machining apparatus and machining method15US 6,533,508 B1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha · 2003
- Orbital hand tool apparatus for drilling14US 6,758,642 B2Novator AB · 2004