C03B 33/06
Cutting or splitting glass tubes, rods, or hollow products
Official title: Cutting or splitting glass tubes, rods, or hollow products (C03B33/09 takes precedence)
C03B33/06 (Cutting or splitting glass tubes, rods, or hollow products) appears on 74 US grants and 95 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C03B- Granted patents
- 74
- Published applications
- 95
- Assignees
- 45
- Inventors
- 211
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2006 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2012 | 2 | 3 |
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| 2017 | 5 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 5 |
| 2019 | 3 | 9 |
| 2020 | 2 | 9 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12 |
| 2022 | 7 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 6 |
| 2024 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025 | 8 | 4 |
| 2026 | 4 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Assembly and method for cleaving a glass body with a laser9 Jun 2026US 12,649,682 B2OpTek Systems, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for processing glass elements31 Mar 2026US 12,590,025 B2Schott AG
- Hollow glass body and use of a hollow glass body3 Mar 2026US 12,564,540 B2Nipro Corporation
- Method for processing brittle-hard materials10 Feb 2026US 12,544,861 B2Schott AG
- Method and apparatus for producing hollow glass body products, and hollow glass body products and their use14 Oct 2025US 12,441,648 B2Schott AG
- Systems and methods for glass tube separation and sealing using lasers13 Aug 2026US 2026/0234044 A1Corning Incorporated
- Methods and apparatus for making glass vials using lasers6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225937 A1Corning Incorporated
- Systems and methods for converting glass tubes with microwaves of mm-wavelengths9 Jul 2026US 2026/0193124 A1Corning Incorporated
- Tubular body cutting device and tubular body cutting method28 May 2026US 2026/0145983 A1Nipro Corporation
- Emitter tips and methods for manufacture14 May 2026US 2026/0132069 A1Thermo Finnigan LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for the manufacture of ampules from glass tubes62US 4,226,607 AFirma Karl Lutz · 1980
- Systems and methods of glass cutting by inducing pulsed laser perforations into glass articles44US 9,701,564 B2Corning Incorporated · 2017
- Method for breaking brittle rods or fibers41US 3,934,773 ABell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated · 1976
- Apparatus for breaking brittle rods or fibers12US 4,027,814 ABell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated · 1977
- Ampule opener12US 4,417,679 A1983