B23K 26/322
Involving coated metal parts
Official title: involving coated metal parts (using absorbing layers on the workpiece B23K26/18)
B23K26/322 (Involving coated metal parts) appears on 148 US grants and 238 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 148
- Published applications
- 238
- Assignees
- 105
- Inventors
- 488
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 4 |
| 2013 | 0 | 13 |
| 2014 | 3 | 12 |
| 2015 | 9 | 5 |
| 2016 | 17 | 15 |
| 2017 | 13 | 18 |
| 2018 | 9 | 16 |
| 2019 | 10 | 17 |
| 2020 | 10 | 20 |
| 2021 | 16 | 25 |
| 2022 | 11 | 18 |
| 2023 | 13 | 22 |
| 2024 | 11 | 21 |
| 2025 | 16 | 16 |
| 2026 | 10 | 10 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods for preparation of sheets to be used for fabrication of a welded steel blank and fabricating a welded blank18 Aug 2026US 12,708,962 B2ArcelorMittal
- Method for forming a connection between a busbar and a contact section, a busbar having a contact section and power distribution system having such busbar11 Aug 2026US 12,706,426 B2Rogers Corporation
- Method for producing a welded metal blank and thus obtained welded metal blank16 Jun 2026US 12,654,250 B2ArcelorMittal
- Busbar and method of manufacturing busbar26 May 2026US 12,640,280 B2Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Battery terminal micro welds21 Apr 2026US 12,609,421 B2Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
- Method of manufacturing busbar3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260780 A1Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Laser welded joint and manufacturing method of laser welded joint30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216822 A1Nippon Steel Corporation
- Welded joint16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200209 A1Nippon Steel Corporation
- Welded joint9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192390 A1Nippon Steel Corporation
- Method for manufacturing joint structure of dissimilar materials, and joint structure of dissimilar materials9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192391 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
Most cited
By later US patents
- Selective laser melting / sintering using powdered flux45US 9,283,593 B2Siemens Energy, Inc. · 2016
- Method for laser welding one or more workpieces of hardenable steel in a butt joint18US 9,623,515 B2WISCO Tailored Blanks GmbH · 2017
- Method for closed-loop controlling a laser processing operation and laser material processing head using the same17US 9,355,441 B2Precitec GmbH & Co.KG · 2016
- Detecting defects during laser welding16US 8,777,482 B2TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG · 2014
- Method for classifying a multitude of images recorded by a camera observing a processing area and laser material processing head using the same16US 9,105,077 B2Precitec GmbH & Co.KG · 2015