B24B 15/02
In valve housings
Official title: in valve housings
B24B15/02 (In valve housings) appears on 56 US grants and 21 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B24B- Granted patents
- 56
- Published applications
- 21
- Assignees
- 42
- Inventors
- 126
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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| 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Carbide seat remanufacturing19 May 2026US 12,629,785 B2Caterpillar Inc.
- Maintaining valve components3 Feb 2026US 12,539,576 B2Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Carbide seat remanufacturing1 Apr 2025US 12,263,549 B2Caterpillar Inc.
- Clapper style stop valve spherical washer lapping tool9 Jul 2019US 10,343,250 B2Siemens Energy, Inc.
- Valve seat machining device, and valve seat machining method using said valve seat machining device3 Jul 2018US 10,010,995 B2Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
- Steam turbine seal ring finishing apparatus and method of use1 Jan 2026US 2026/0001146 A1GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
- Carbide seat remanufacturing12 Jun 2025US 2025/0187123 A1Caterpillar Inc.
- Carbide seat remanufacturing27 Feb 2025US 2025/0065452 A1Caterpillar Inc.
- Maintaining valve components5 Dec 2024US 2024/0399528 A1Saudi Arabian Oil Company
- Clapper style stop valve spherical washer lapping tool5 Sep 2019US 2019/0270174 A1Siemens Energy, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Portable field machine for cutting, grinding and lapping valve seats28US 4,050,836 ARockwell International Corporation · 1977
- Valve for handling hot caustic alumina solution with provision for grinding26US 4,338,961 AAnchor/Darling Valve Company · 1982
- Method and machine for machining the surface of a valve seat24US 4,545,706 AHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1985
- Fabricating internal combustion engine cylinder heads with close tolerance internal surfaces19US 4,896,638 AFord Motor Company · 1990
- Method for grinding bimetallic components16US 5,951,378 ANorton Company · 1999