B23K 20/128
Making use of additional material
Official title: {making use of additional material}
B23K20/128 (Making use of additional material) appears on 140 US grants and 204 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 204
- Assignees
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- Inventors
- 351
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 4 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 8 |
| 2025 | 10 | 18 |
| 2026 | 7 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Deposition head for friction stir additive manufacturing devices and methods15 Sep 2026US 12,734,604 B2Blue Origin Manufacturing, LLC
- Fabrication of high-strength and lightweight beams and structures1 Sep 2026US 12,722,233 B2Tokyo Electron Limited
- Solid state manufacturing tools and methods using them9 Jun 2026US 12,649,178 B2MELD Manufacturing Corporation
- Solid-phase molding processing method19 May 2026US 12,629,769 B2
- Wire-feed friction stir additive manufacturing systems, devices, and methods31 Mar 2026US 12,589,446 B2Blue Origin Manufacturing, LLC
- Integrated additive, subtractive and repair friction stir device and method16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200008 A1Harbin Institute of Technology
- Regulation layer for dissimilar metal friction welding interface and aluminum-steel friction welding method16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200016 A1Nanchang Hangkong University
- Wire-feed friction stir additive manufacturing systems, devices, and methods9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192381 A1Blue Origin Manufacturing, LLC
- System for manufacturing a manufactured object by additive friction stir deposition and associated installation23 Apr 2026US 2026/0109112 A1Dassault Aviation
- Apparatus and related methods for friction stir additive manufacturing repair of materials26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084232 A1Rtx Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Integral corrosion protection of friction-welded joints97US 6,045,028 AMcDonnell Douglas Corporation · 2000
- Methods of manufacture of spin-forming blanks, particularly for fabrication of rocket domes77US 6,660,106 B1The Boeing Company · 2003
- Apparatus and method for friction stir welding using filler material75US 6,543,671 B2Lockheed Martin Corporation · 2003
- Friction stir fabrication48US 8,893,954 B2Aeroprobe Corporation · 2014
- System for continuous feeding of filler material for friction stir welding, processing and fabrication46US 8,875,976 B2Aeroprobe Corporation · 2014