B29C 37/0025
Applying surface layers
Official title: {Applying surface layers, e.g. coatings, decorative layers, printed layers, to articles during shaping, e.g. in-mould printing (moulding on preformed layers as inserts B29C70/68; applying fluent material to surfaces in general B05)}
B29C37/0025 (Applying surface layers) appears on 777 US grants and 869 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29C- Granted patents
- 777
- Published applications
- 869
- Assignees
- 561
- Inventors
- 1,755
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 7 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for producing coated fiber-reinforced plastic8 Sep 2026US 12,728,569 B2Teijin Limited
- In-mold coat injection device8 Sep 2026US 12,728,575 B2Seikoh Giken Co., Ltd.
- Method for producing a curved substrate panel with a hologram, resulting substrate panel with hologram and a laminate containing such a substrate panel, in particular a vehicle window26 May 2026US 12,638,807 B2Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Coatings from polyisocyanurate coatings (rim) and their use in injection molding processes7 Apr 2026US 12,594,700 B2Covestro Deutschland AG
- Method for texturing a polyamide10 Mar 2026US 12,570,037 B2Arkema France
- Method for manufacturing a vane made from composite material comprising a serration element and an anti-erosion coating1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295949 A1Safran Aerospace Composites
- A Basalt-Based Profile with Polyurethane Coating24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284982 A1Unknown Nordic Aps
- Embedded contact lenses with surface and astigmatism masking30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216977 A1Alcon Inc.
- In-mold coat injection device25 Jun 2026US 2026/0175488 A1Seikoh Giken Co., Ltd.
- Method for producing an article, a module, and an apparatus25 Jun 2026US 2026/0175615 A1Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of in-mold coating golf balls163US 5,849,168 AAcushnet Company · 1998
- Simultaneous moulding and transfer printing153US 5,152,861 A1992
- Method for modifying a surface135US 6,719,929 B2Novartis AG · 2004
- Colored lens131US 5,120,121 AAllergan, Inc. · 1992
- Directional surface marking safety and guidance devices and systems124US 10,221,530 B22019