B23K 15/0053
Seam welding
Official title: {Seam welding}
B23K15/0053 (Seam welding) appears on 166 US grants and 168 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 166
- Published applications
- 168
- Assignees
- 140
- Inventors
- 543
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 3 | 11 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 4 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for welding using a mobile vacuum chamber18 Aug 2026US 12,708,959 B2Fachhochschule Aachen
- Electron beam welding appliance11 Aug 2026US 12,703,040 B2Techmeta Engineering SAS
- Method for producing a welded metal blank and thus obtained welded metal blank16 Jun 2026US 12,654,250 B2ArcelorMittal
- Weld cap and plug welds for fluid delivery systems17 Mar 2026US 12,577,966 B2Compart Systems Pte. Ltd.
- Method for producing a component of an electromechanical transducer19 Aug 2025US 12,395,054 B2Gehring Technologies GmbH + Co. KG
- 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
- Joining Method to Perform Defect-Free, Electron Beam Welds Using a Slope-Out Technique12 Mar 2026US 2026/0070148 A1
- Welding system for x-ray monitoring of electron beam welds19 Feb 2026US 2026/0049952 A1Aquasium Technology Limited
- Arrangement for joining and sealing a metallic hydrogen separation membrane to a metallic connector1 Jan 2026US 2026/0001041 A1Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Most cited
By later US patents
- Solid freeform fabrication apparatus and methods174US 7,168,935 B1The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2007
- Method of high speed high power welding131US 5,595,670 AThe Twentyfirst Century Corporation · 1997
- Breakaway vehicle fender device97US 9,403,557 B12016
- Unitized rotary rock bit80US 4,229,638 ADresser Industries, Inc. · 1980
- Method of high energy density radiation beam lap welding73US 5,603,853 AThe Twentyfirst Century Corporation · 1997