B23K 9/124
Circuits or methods for feeding welding wire
Official title: {Circuits or methods for feeding welding wire}
B23K9/124 (Circuits or methods for feeding welding wire) appears on 532 US grants and 697 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 532
- Published applications
- 697
- Assignees
- 147
- Inventors
- 914
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 40 | 28 |
| 2025 | 31 | 28 |
| 2026 | 14 | 26 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Conductance based control system for additive manufacturing6 Oct 2026US 12,752,374 B2Procada AB
- Systems and methods to control welding processes using weld pool attributes8 Sep 2026US 12,728,473 B2Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Hotwire deposition material processing system and method18 Aug 2026US 12,708,963 B2Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Method and apparatus for setting up welding parameters21 Jul 2026US 12,686,069 B2Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Welding system with support base23 Jun 2026US 12,661,733 B2Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Portable welding wire feeders and separable wire sources8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307164 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Welding system with support base1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295708 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Control system for coordinated feeding of welding wire in a push-pull motor system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284769 A1
- Push-pull motor speed control24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284771 A1
- Fillet welding method, feeding control method, power supply, and fillet welding system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241475 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method of short circuiting arc welding132US 5,148,001 AThe Lincoln Electric Company · 1992
- Apparatus and method of controlling a welding cycle114US 5,001,326 AThe Lincoln Electric Company · 1991
- Output control of short circuit welding power source102US 4,546,234 AKabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho · 1985
- Welding wire positioning system96US 6,977,357 B2Lincoln Global.Inc. · 2005
- Portable arc voltage wirefeed welding system94US 4,508,954 AOxo Welding Equipment Co., Inc. · 1985