B23K 9/1278
Using mechanical means
Official title: {Using mechanical means}
B23K9/1278 (Using mechanical means) appears on 26 US grants and 32 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 26
- Published applications
- 32
- Assignees
- 25
- Inventors
- 75
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Industrial robot with contact sensor107US 5,562,843 AJoven Electric Co., Ltd. · 1996
- Probe for touch sensing22US 6,563,084 B1Lincoln Global.Inc. · 2003
- Auto steering in a weld joint17US 9,862,050 B2Lincoln Global.Inc. · 2018
- Method for teaching/testing a motion sequence of a welding robot, welding robot and control system for same13US 9,833,857 B2Fronius International GmbH · 2017
- Method and apparatus for automatic multi-run welding12US 5,107,093 AESAB Aktiebolag · 1992