B23K 3/06
Solder feeding devices
Official title: Solder feeding devices; Solder melting pans
B23K3/06 (Solder feeding devices) appears on 1,580 US grants and 1,285 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 1,580
- Published applications
- 1,285
- Assignees
- 669
- Inventors
- 2,999
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 19 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 11 | 0 |
| 1979 | 4 | 0 |
| 1980 | 7 | 0 |
| 1981 | 7 | 0 |
| 1982 | 11 | 0 |
| 1983 | 14 | 0 |
| 1984 | 12 | 0 |
| 1985 | 19 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 15 | 0 |
| 1992 | 17 | 0 |
| 1993 | 27 | 0 |
| 1994 | 17 | 0 |
| 1995 | 21 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 26 | 0 |
| 1998 | 38 | 0 |
| 1999 | 53 | 0 |
| 2000 | 58 | 0 |
| 2001 | 66 | 21 |
| 2002 | 59 | 58 |
| 2003 | 52 | 45 |
| 2004 | 47 | 52 |
| 2005 | 39 | 52 |
| 2006 | 29 | 68 |
| 2007 | 24 | 57 |
| 2008 | 24 | 67 |
| 2009 | 27 | 67 |
| 2010 | 68 | 60 |
| 2011 | 41 | 46 |
| 2012 | 49 | 48 |
| 2013 | 34 | 39 |
| 2014 | 28 | 50 |
| 2015 | 39 | 77 |
| 2016 | 45 | 66 |
| 2017 | 41 | 50 |
| 2018 | 54 | 53 |
| 2019 | 34 | 48 |
| 2020 | 41 | 60 |
| 2021 | 38 | 47 |
| 2022 | 45 | 36 |
| 2023 | 49 | 50 |
| 2024 | 27 | 21 |
| 2025 | 24 | 31 |
| 2026 | 29 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Sealed squeegee for supplying solder paste with uniform density6 Oct 2026US 12,752,358 B2Ese Co., Ltd.
- Repair of solder bumps29 Sep 2026US 12,746,613 B2Orbotech Ltd.
- Jet soldering apparatus8 Sep 2026US 12,728,470 B2Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.
- Varied ball ball-grid-array (BGA) packages1 Sep 2026US 12,727,523 B2Intel Corporation
- Ball mounting apparatus with ball attach volume control18 Aug 2026US 12,708,953 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Varied ball ball-grid-array (bga) packages24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293779 A1Intel Foundry IP LLC
- Solder supply device, solder supply method and printing apparatus3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257292 A1Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
- Laser soldering apparatus having adjustable soldering position and soldering method comprising same20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241473 A1Laservall Technology Co., Ltd
- Wire buffer system13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233962 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Selective stencil mask and a stencil printing method30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217046 A1STATS ChipPAC Pte. Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for dispensing small amounts of liquid material245US 5,747,102 ANordson Corporation · 1998
- Process for forming solder balls on a plate having apertures using solder paste and transferring the solder balls to semiconductor device207US 5,643,831 AFujitsu Limited · 1997
- Method and apparatus for dispensing material in a printer206US 6,453,810 B1Speedline Technologies, Inc. · 2002
- High performance flip chip package189US 6,133,634 AFairchild Semiconductor Corporation · 2000
- Chip carrier mounting device187US 4,705,205 ARaychem Corporation · 1987