B23K 7/002
Machines, apparatus or equipment for cutting plane workpieces
Official title: {Machines, apparatus or equipment for cutting plane workpieces, e.g. plates}
B23K7/002 (Machines, apparatus or equipment for cutting plane workpieces) appears on 137 US grants and 71 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 137
- Published applications
- 71
- Assignees
- 84
- Inventors
- 226
- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method and machine for cutting and removing workpiece parts from a plate-shaped material2 Jun 2026US 12,643,178 B2TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
- Method for producing workpiece parts from a plate-shaped workpiece, data processing program and processing machine for producing the workpiece parts11 Nov 2025US 12,465,989 B2TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
- Steel-frame cutting method and device19 Nov 2024US 12,145,222 B2Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
- System and method for processing a workpiece4 Jun 2024US 11,999,025 B2Peddinghaus Corporation
- Metal cutting device24 Oct 2023US 11,794,268 B2
- Automated sphere plate pressing method16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199948 A1CB&I STS Delaware LLC
- Scrap cutting system with moveable enclosure30 Oct 2025US 2025/0332648 A1Edw. C. Levy Co.
- Autonomous robotic cutting system18 Apr 2024US 2024/0123624 A1
- 3d-cutter and a method of controlling the 3d-cutter11 Jan 2024US 2024/0009780 A1Voortman Steel Machinery Holding B. V.
- Portable Thermal Cutting Device30 Nov 2023US 2023/0381878 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Cutting apparatus with thermal and nonthermal cutters, and associated methods48US 6,222,155 B1The ESAB Group, Inc. · 2001
- Method of, system and computer program for machine cutting several parts of a piece of material using controlling rules and variables for cutting36US 9,469,338 B2Tomologic AB · 2016
- Installation for cutting scrap iron by oxygen cutting34US 5,280,883 ASolomat S.A. · 1994
- Metal cutting machine with cut piece pickup and transport magnets26US 4,372,538 AC-R-O, Inc. · 1983
- Thermal cutting jet device with suction apparatus24US 4,382,170 ATrumpf GmbH & Co. · 1983