B23K 15/0046
Welding
Official title: {Welding}
B23K15/0046 (Welding) appears on 974 US grants and 1,292 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 974
- Published applications
- 1,292
- Assignees
- 507
- Inventors
- 2,327
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 6 | 3 |
| 2003 | 10 | 5 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12 |
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| 2009 | 3 | 15 |
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| 2015 | 25 | 80 |
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| 2017 | 58 | 186 |
| 2018 | 67 | 146 |
| 2019 | 107 | 103 |
| 2020 | 110 | 98 |
| 2021 | 84 | 77 |
| 2022 | 73 | 65 |
| 2023 | 63 | 45 |
| 2024 | 58 | 63 |
| 2025 | 43 | 33 |
| 2026 | 18 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Conductance based control system for additive manufacturing6 Oct 2026US 12,752,374 B2Procada AB
- Chemical vapor deposition during additive manufacturing6 Oct 2026US 12,753,509 B2General Electric Company
- Electron beam additive manufacturing system and control components15 Sep 2026US 12,734,582 B2Sciaky, Inc.
- Sealing structure of sealed container, formation method therefor, gas generator using sealing structure of sealed container, and manufacturing method therefor1 Sep 2026US 12,722,591 B2Daicel Corporation
- Fabrication of metallic parts by additive manufacturing25 Aug 2026US 12,715,033 B2Elmet Technologies, Inc.
- Device and method for welding half sheets to form a bipolar plate1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295738 A1Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Method for determining an optimized welding direction for a jointing plane; method for determining an optimized jointing plane for the joining of two parts; and method for welding two parts24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284799 A1Safran Aircraft Engines
- Process for manufacturing an aluminium alloy part20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242898 A1C-TEC Constellium Technology Center
- Method and jig for manufacturing butterfly valve23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208304 A1Nikki Co., Ltd.
- Additive manufacturing apparatus16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199978 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatuses, systems and methods for three-dimensional printing262US 9,254,535 B2Velo3D, Inc. · 2016
- Apparatuses, systems and methods for three-dimensional printing197US 9,346,127 B2Velo3D, Inc. · 2016
- Apparatuses, systems and methods for three-dimensional printing187US 9,573,193 B2Velo3D, Inc. · 2017
- Apparatuses, systems and methods for three-dimensional printing184US 9,403,235 B2Velo3D, Inc. · 2016
- Systems for three-dimensional printing182US 9,586,290 B2Velo3D, Inc. · 2017