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  2. /B · Performing operations
  3. /B23 · Machine tools
  4. /B23Q · Details, components, or accessories for machine tools
  5. /B23Q 35/00 · Control systems or devices for copying directly from a pattern or a
  6. /B23Q 35/04 · Control systems or devices for copying directly from a pattern or a
  7. /B23Q 35/08 · Means for transforming movement of the feeler or the like into feed
  8. /B23Q 35/12 · Involving electrical means
  9. /B23Q 35/121
B23Q 35/121

Using mechanical sensing

Official title: using mechanical sensing

B23Q35/121 (Using mechanical sensing) appears on 85 US grants and 0 published applications in this corpus.

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Where it sits

  1. BPerforming operations
  2. B23Machine tools
  3. B23QDetails, components, or accessories for machine tools
  4. B23Q 35/00Control systems or devices for copying directly from a pattern or a
  5. B23Q 35/04Control systems or devices for copying directly from a pattern or a
  6. B23Q 35/08Means for transforming movement of the feeler or the like into feed
  7. B23Q 35/12Involving electrical means
  8. B23Q 35/121Using mechanical sensing
  9. 2subgroups, listed below
Granted patents
85
Published applications
0
Assignees
25
Inventors
71
Latest grant
21 Jul 1998

Filings by year

Granted patentsPublished applications
B23Q 35/121: granted patents and published applications per publication year
YearGranted patentsPublished applications
197640
197750
197850
197940
198020
198150
198260
198340
198470
198520
198680
198790
198830
198940
199020
199140
199210
199340
199440
199510
199600
199700
199810

197619861998

By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.

Subgroups

Granted patents
  • B23Q 35/123The feeler varying the impedance in a circuit58
  • B23Q 35/122The feeler opening or closing electrical contacts4

Recent patents

  • Automated system and method for welding a first metal part to a second metal part21 Jul 1998US 5,782,401 AR. J. Tower Corporation
  • Tracing control system19 Dec 1995US 5,477,119 AFanuc Corporation
  • Tracking control system23 Aug 1994US 5,341,079 AFanuc Corporation
  • Tracer control unit2 Aug 1994US 5,333,974 AFanuc Corporation
  • Tracing method17 May 1994US 5,313,400 AFanuc Corporation

No published applications in this class yet.

Most cited

By later US patents
  • Tracer control system35US 4,224,670 AFujitsu Fanuc Limited · 1980
  • Electrical duplicating control apparatus25US 4,084,244 ASiemens Aktiengesellschaft · 1978
  • Machine tool tracing system23US 4,394,608 AGettys Manufacturing Company, Inc. · 1983
  • Method of compensating a profiling direction of a profiling machine22US 4,603,487 AMitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1986
  • Tracer control method21US 4,603,285 AFanuc Corporation · 1986

Top assignees

Documents
  • Fanuc Corporation31
  • FFFujitsu Fanuc Limited15
  • MJMitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha5
  • Textron Inc.4
  • GGoetze AG2
  • AEAutomation Equipment, Inc.1
  • BJB-J Enterprises, Inc.1
  • CRC-R-O, Inc.1
  • CHCarl Hurth Maschinen- und Zahnradfabrik GmbH & Co.1
  • FFukami Co., Ltd.1

Often classified with

  • Y10TTechnical subjects covered by former us classification33
  • G05BControl or regulating systems in general21
  • B23KSoldering or unsoldering5
  • G01BMeasuring length, thickness or similar linear dimensions3
  • B23CMilling2
  • A41HAppliances or methods for making clothes1
  • B23DPlaning1
  • B23FMaking gears or toothed racks1
  • B23HWorking of metal by the action of a high concentration of electric1
  • B24BMachines, devices, or processes for grinding or polishing1

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