B29B 13/00
Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped
Official title: Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped (chemical aspects C08J3/00 {; heating, cooling or curing during shaping B29C35/00; thermal after-treatment B29C71/02})
B29B13/00 (Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped) appears on 1,917 US grants and 1,623 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29B- Granted patents
- 1,917
- Published applications
- 1,623
- Assignees
- 1,196
- Inventors
- 4,142
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 26 | 0 |
| 1977 | 22 | 0 |
| 1978 | 20 | 0 |
| 1979 | 13 | 0 |
| 1980 | 29 | 0 |
| 1981 | 24 | 0 |
| 1982 | 22 | 0 |
| 1983 | 29 | 0 |
| 1984 | 24 | 0 |
| 1985 | 24 | 0 |
| 1986 | 31 | 0 |
| 1987 | 41 | 0 |
| 1988 | 27 | 0 |
| 1989 | 33 | 0 |
| 1990 | 41 | 0 |
| 1991 | 34 | 0 |
| 1992 | 42 | 0 |
| 1993 | 42 | 0 |
| 1994 | 39 | 0 |
| 1995 | 31 | 0 |
| 1996 | 35 | 0 |
| 1997 | 36 | 0 |
| 1998 | 40 | 0 |
| 1999 | 41 | 0 |
| 2000 | 43 | 0 |
| 2001 | 28 | 9 |
| 2002 | 33 | 34 |
| 2003 | 13 | 39 |
| 2004 | 23 | 28 |
| 2005 | 16 | 34 |
| 2006 | 19 | 37 |
| 2007 | 20 | 42 |
| 2008 | 16 | 43 |
| 2009 | 16 | 38 |
| 2010 | 30 | 55 |
| 2011 | 19 | 47 |
| 2012 | 37 | 50 |
| 2013 | 32 | 61 |
| 2014 | 41 | 78 |
| 2015 | 57 | 89 |
| 2016 | 52 | 121 |
| 2017 | 64 | 123 |
| 2018 | 76 | 99 |
| 2019 | 100 | 97 |
| 2020 | 78 | 104 |
| 2021 | 78 | 83 |
| 2022 | 59 | 81 |
| 2023 | 74 | 64 |
| 2024 | 67 | 75 |
| 2025 | 52 | 47 |
| 2026 | 28 | 45 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B29B 13/02Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped: by heating1,003
- B29B 13/06Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped: by drying396
- B29B 13/10Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped: by grinding294
- B29B 13/08Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped: by using188
- B29B 2013/005Degassing undesirable residual componentsIndexing code91
- B29B 13/04Conditioning or physical treatment of the material to be shaped: by cooling78
- B29B 2013/002Extracting undesirable residual componentsIndexing code57
- B29B 13/007Treatment of sinter powders17
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By later US patents
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