B23Q 2230/002
Special operations in a machine tool: using the spindle for performing a
Official title: Using the spindle for performing a non machining or non measuring operation, e.g. cleaning, actuating a mechanism
B23Q2230/002 (Special operations in a machine tool: using the spindle for performing a) appears on 110 US grants and 116 published applications in this corpus.
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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
- Combined video camera and toolholder with triangulation sensing25US 7,423,734 B12008
- Machine tool spindle actuated workpiece clamping system24US 4,850,099 AThe Boeing Company · 1989
- Workpiece center and edge finder having visual light indicator24US 7,464,478 B22008
- Indexing attachment22US 4,529,342 AMaho Werzeugmaschinenbau Babel & Co. · 1985
- Machine tool22US 4,716,647 AChiron-Werke GmbH & Co. KG · 1988