B24B 5/18
Involving centreless means for supporting, guiding, floating or rotating work
Official title: involving centreless means for supporting, guiding, floating or rotating work (centreless turning B23B5/08; centreless grinding of threads B23G1/42)
B24B5/18 (Involving centreless means for supporting, guiding, floating or rotating work) appears on 184 US grants and 134 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B24B- Granted patents
- 184
- Published applications
- 134
- Assignees
- 135
- Inventors
- 414
- Latest grant
- 28 Apr 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 3 |
| 2002 | 5 | 4 |
| 2003 | 4 | 3 |
| 2004 | 5 | 7 |
| 2005 | 4 | 7 |
| 2006 | 5 | 1 |
| 2007 | 5 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 4 |
| 2010 | 4 | 6 |
| 2011 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 3 | 7 |
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| 2018 | 5 | 7 |
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| 2020 | 2 | 13 |
| 2021 | 6 | 5 |
| 2022 | 4 | 9 |
| 2023 | 4 | 6 |
| 2024 | 7 | 6 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B24B 5/22For grinding cylindrical surfaces68
- B24B 5/307Means for supporting work36
- B24B 5/30Regulating-wheels20
- B24B 5/185For internal surfaces16
- B24B 5/24For grinding conical surfaces16
- B24B 5/26For grinding peculiarly profiled surfaces14
- B24B 5/28For grinding outer surfaces concentrically to bores, involving additional centering means4
- B24B 5/20Involving grooved abrading blocks3
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Most cited
By later US patents
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