B29C 66/826
Without using a separate pressure application tool
Official title: {without using a separate pressure application tool, e.g. the own weight of the parts to be joined (B29C65/66 takes precedence)}
B29C66/826 (Without using a separate pressure application tool) appears on 300 US grants and 265 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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| 2025 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | 4 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for actively cooling and supporting components during thermoplastic composite welding19 May 2026US 12,629,900 B2Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
- Method of producing motor vehicles and tool suitable therefor3 Feb 2026US 12,539,676 B2PPG Advanced Surface Technologies, LLC
- Method of joining pipes and apparatus for facilitating the same13 Jan 2026US 12,523,329 B2
- Manufacture of wind turbine blades6 Jan 2026US 12,515,429 B2Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Methods for joining a first thermoplastic substrate with a second thermoplastic substrate7 Oct 2025US 12,434,445 B2The Boeing Company
- Method for attaching a metal reinforcement on a leading edge of a turbomachine blade8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307338 A1Safran Aerospace Composites
- Air-tight longitudinal sealing seam for thin films16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200614 A1Hochland SE
- Method of joining pipes and apparatus for facilitating the same16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104122 A1
- Process for producing a composite component comprising at least one metal layer and one polymer layer2 Apr 2026US 2026/0091562 A1BASF SE
- Methods for joining a first thermoplastic substrate with a second thermoplastic substrate8 Jan 2026US 2026/0008239 A1The Boeing Company
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- Fabric light control window covering129US 5,313,999 AHunter Douglas Inc. · 1994
- Methods of manufacturing microfabricated substrates127US 6,425,972 B1Calipher Technologies Corp. · 2002