C03B 37/03
Drawing means
Official title: Drawing means, e.g. drawing drums {; Traction or tensioning devices}
C03B37/03 (Drawing means) appears on 209 US grants and 203 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C03B- Granted patents
- 209
- Published applications
- 203
- Assignees
- 83
- Inventors
- 441
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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| 2026 | 3 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Cleaning step to remove metals or metal oxides from porous glass body19 May 2026US 12,630,459 B2Corning Incorporated
- Optical fiber draw production systems, pressure devices and methods applying pressure to optical fiber12 May 2026US 12,623,949 B2Corning Incorporated
- In-tower optical fiber bending5 May 2026US 12,617,709 B2
- Flexible sealing assembly for optical fiber draw furnace and optical fiber25 Nov 2025US 12,479,752 B2
- Wire-drawing optical fiber base material manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus10 Jun 2025US 12,325,657 B2Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
- Apparatus of manufacturing optical fiber and method of manufacturing optical fiber16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200787 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Single-draw multi-step multi-furnace fabrication of hollow-core fibers18 Jun 2026US 2026/0167555 A1University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Method for measuring twist of optical fiber and method for manufacturing optical fiber11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160641 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Methods for producing glass strand and glass yarn28 May 2026US 2026/0145986 A1Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
- System and method for fabrication of hollow-core fibers28 May 2026US 2026/0145987 A1Relativity Networks, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for using on line optic fiber loss monitor87US 4,081,258 AInternational Telephone and Telegraph Corporation · 1978
- Method of making a fiber having low polarization mode dispersion due to a permanent spin58US 5,298,047 AAT&T Bell Laboratories · 1994
- Method and apparatus for tensile testing and rethreading optical fiber during fiber draw58US 7,832,675 B2Corning Incorporated · 2010
- Drive control system for a fiber-based plasma display44US 6,946,803 B22005
- Method for manufacturing helical optical fiber42US 4,028,081 ABell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated · 1977