B23K 9/133
Means for feeding electrodes
Official title: Means for feeding electrodes, e.g. drums, rolls, motors
B23K9/133 (Means for feeding electrodes) appears on 538 US grants and 585 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Welding system with support base23 Jun 2026US 12,661,733 B2Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Wire spool clutch16 Jun 2026US 12,654,249 B2Lincoln Global.Inc.
- Detection of contact tip consumption with welding9 Jun 2026US 12,649,197 B2Lincln Global, Inc.
- Retainer ring for welding wire2 Jun 2026US 12,643,172 B2Kiswel Ltd.
- Electric welding machine12 May 2026US 12,623,299 B1
- Portable welding wire feeders and separable wire sources8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307164 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Systems and methods for utilizing wearable wire feeders with improved feedback and use features8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307165 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Welding system with support base1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295708 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Apparatus for supplying welding filler material during joining of strip ends using welding technology1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295709 A1Fritz Orbke Baustoffgrosshandlung GmbH
- Control system for coordinated feeding of welding wire in a push-pull motor system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284769 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for assessing weld quality196US 6,236,017 B1Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLC · 2001
- Wire feeding apparatus128US 5,816,466 AThe Lincoln Electric Company · 1998
- Retainer ring for welding wire container disclosure97US 5,277,314 AThe Lincoln Electric Company · 1994
- Welding machine with automatic parameter setting94US 6,091,048 AIllinois Tool Works Inc. · 2000
- Method and apparatus for feeding welding wire88US 6,257,517 B1Sandvik Steel Co. · 2001