B23K 11/30
Features relating to electrodes
B23K11/30 (Features relating to electrodes) appears on 1,026 US grants and 837 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 471
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B23K 11/31Electrode holders and actuating devices therefor522
- B23K 11/3009Pressure electrodes245
- B23K 11/3063Electrode maintenance151
- B23K 11/3072Devices for exchanging or removing electrodes or electrode tips88
- B23K 11/3036Roller electrodes57
- B23K 11/309Wire electrodes48
- B23K 11/3054Cooled electrodes46
- B23K 11/3081Electrodes with a seam contacting part shaped so as to correspond to43
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