B23K 26/244
Overlap seam welding
B23K26/244 (Overlap seam welding) appears on 622 US grants and 851 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 851
- Assignees
- 439
- Inventors
- 1,950
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 34 | 79 |
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| 2026 | 20 | 51 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method of manufacturing vehicle body frame structure10 Sep 2026US 2026/0264172 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for laser joining dissimilar metals and endoluminal stent with radiopaque marker produced thereby141US 6,554,854 B1SciMed Life Systems, Inc. · 2003
- Joining a workpiece in a concealed joining seam117US 9,700,966 B2Fft Produktionssysteme GmbH & Co. KG · 2017
- Laser weld monitor100US 6,670,574 B1Miyachi Technos Corporation · 2003
- Method of high energy density radiation beam lap welding73US 5,603,853 AThe Twentyfirst Century Corporation · 1997
- Low expansion laser welding arrangement64US 4,424,435 AItek Corporation · 1984