B23K 20/10
Making use of vibrations
Official title: making use of vibrations, e.g. ultrasonic welding
B23K20/10 (Making use of vibrations) appears on 1,336 US grants and 1,405 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 1,336
- Published applications
- 1,405
- Assignees
- 620
- Inventors
- 2,759
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 31 | 11 |
| 2002 | 27 | 19 |
| 2003 | 34 | 39 |
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| 2006 | 15 | 55 |
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| 2019 | 54 | 105 |
| 2020 | 68 | 81 |
| 2021 | 68 | 77 |
| 2022 | 83 | 100 |
| 2023 | 57 | 80 |
| 2024 | 72 | 102 |
| 2025 | 68 | 67 |
| 2026 | 48 | 58 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for joining and repair using ultrasonic additive manufacturing with a contoured sonotrode6 Oct 2026US 12,752,366 B2Ohio State Innovation Foundation
- Wire bonding arrays, maintenance stations for wire bonding arrays, and related methods22 Sep 2026US 12,745,664 B2Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.
- Manufacturing method of secondary battery and secondary battery8 Sep 2026US 12,728,476 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Wire bonding apparatus and control method8 Sep 2026US 12,728,478 B2Kioxia Corporation
- Apparatus and method of manufacturing a display device8 Sep 2026US 12,733,104 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Improved cable connecting piece8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312306 A1Safetrack Infrasystems SISAB AB
- Bed mesh assembly device and bed mesh assembly method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295713 A1Guangzhou Lianrou Machinery & Equipment Co., Ltd.
- Composite Current Collector Double-sided Double Ultrasonic Roller Welding System1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295714 A1Sheng Dong Li (Guangzhou) Ultrasonic Electronic Equipment Co., Ltd.
- Electrode Tab Bonding Equipment and Electrode Tab Bonding Method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302554 A1LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
- Ultrasonic welding systems for welding a conductive pin to a workpiece, and related power modules24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284773 A1Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for automatically adjusting power output of an ultrasonic generator367US 5,357,423 AKulicke & Soffa Investments, Inc. · 1994
- Methods for fabricating gradient alloy articles with multi-functional properties153US 9,101,979 B2California Institute of Technology · 2015
- Closed-loop ultrasonic welding method and apparatus141US 6,036,796 ABranson Electronics · 2000
- Wire loop, semiconductor device having same, wire bonding method and wire bonding apparatus125US 6,933,608 B2Kaijo Corporation · 2005
- Shaped lead structure and method120US 5,398,863 ATessera, Inc. · 1995