B24B 7/16
For grinding end-faces
Official title: for grinding end-faces, e.g. of gauges, rollers, nuts, piston rings (for combined grinding of surfaces of revolution and adjacent plane surfaces on work B24B5/01; for grinding edges of bevels on work B24B9/00)
B24B7/16 (For grinding end-faces) appears on 343 US grants and 182 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B24B- Granted patents
- 343
- Published applications
- 182
- Assignees
- 226
- Inventors
- 649
- Latest grant
- 17 Mar 2026
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1982 | 5 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 13 | 5 |
| 2002 | 9 | 6 |
| 2003 | 5 | 5 |
| 2004 | 4 | 12 |
| 2005 | 7 | 8 |
| 2006 | 11 | 8 |
| 2007 | 6 | 8 |
| 2008 | 3 | 9 |
| 2009 | 7 | 9 |
| 2010 | 3 | 8 |
| 2011 | 7 | 8 |
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| 2014 | 3 | 5 |
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| 2017 | 9 | 9 |
| 2018 | 7 | 9 |
| 2019 | 8 | 13 |
| 2020 | 5 | 0 |
| 2021 | 5 | 5 |
| 2022 | 9 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 | 6 |
| 2024 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method of surface friction treatment of ceramic-reinforced aluminum matrix composite brake disc17 Mar 2026US 12,577,680 B2Shanghai Reinphen Composite Materials Co., Ltd.
- Method for producing discs from a cylindrical rod made of a semiconductor material20 Jan 2026US 12,532,714 B2Siltronic AG
- Setup method21 Oct 2025US 12,447,584 B2Disco Corporation
- Grinding method for circular plate-shaped workpiece9 Sep 2025US 12,409,527 B2Disco Corporation
- Machine tool for grinding discs2 Sep 2025US 12,403,559 B2Danobot S. Coop
- Double or single-sided processing machine26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084261 A1Lapmaster Wolters GmbH
- Double-side grinding apparatus and methods having a wheelbase with porous abrasive members15 Jan 2026US 2026/0014665 A1GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
- Method of surface friction treatment of ceramic-reinforced aluminum matrix composite brake disc22 May 2025US 2025/0163583 A1Shanghai Reinphen Composite Materials Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus for automatically polishing butt weld of ultralong large-diameter pipeline17 Apr 2025US 2025/0121473 A1China Railway No. 3 Engineering Group Co., Ltd.
- Method for grinding semiconductor wafers14 Nov 2024US 2024/0379342 A1Siltronic AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Counterbalanced polishing apparatus137US 4,811,522 A1989
- System for mechanical planarization107US 4,934,102 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1990
- Burnishing tape handling apparatus and method78US 6,283,838 B1Komag, Inc. · 2001
- Method for burnishing75US 4,347,689 AVerbatim Corporation · 1982
- Surface grinding machine61US 5,035,087 AAsahi Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1991