B23K 11/3063
Electrode maintenance
Official title: {Electrode maintenance, e.g. cleaning, grinding}
B23K11/3063 (Electrode maintenance) appears on 151 US grants and 147 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 147
- Assignees
- 77
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- 266
- Latest grant
- 3 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Tip dressing installation system and method3 Feb 2026US 12,539,547 B2Magna International Inc.
- Tip dresser23 Sep 2025US 12,420,352 B2Kyokutoh Co., Ltd.
- Air blow nozzle and tip dresser equipped with air blow nozzle23 Sep 2025US 12,420,353 B2Kyokutoh Co., Ltd.
- Replacing and holding device for electrode tip27 May 2025US 12,311,460 B2Obara Corporation
- Integrated electrode maintenance for robotic welding cell29 Apr 2025US 12,285,816 B2Doben Limited
- Integrated module for forming, dressing and changing, and apparatus26 Feb 2026US 2026/0054318 A1Guangzhou Mino Equipment Co., Ltd.
- Method and device for cleaning the surface of a metal wire or metal strip6 Nov 2025US 2025/0339880 A1
- Chip collection system20 Mar 2025US 2025/0091154 A1Kyokutoh Co., Ltd.
- Device for measuring wear amount of welding tip, control device, robot system, method, and computer program15 Aug 2024US 2024/0269763 A1Fanuc Corporation
- Integrated electrode maintenance for robotic welding cell25 Jul 2024US 2024/0246168 A1Doben Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Spot welding system and method for sensing welding conditions in real time177US 6,506,997 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2003
- Electrode inspection apparatus for spot welding63US 8,953,033 B2Keylex Corporation · 2015
- Electrode tip dresser and cutter for electrode tip dresser26US 5,332,342 AHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1994
- Method and apparatus for dressing spot welding tips23US 4,610,153 AGeneral Motors Corporation · 1986
- Welding tip dresser21US 4,966,506 AStillwater Technologies, Inc. · 1990