C22B 7/003
Only remelting
Official title: {only remelting, e.g. of chips, borings, turnings; apparatus used therefor}
C22B7/003 (Only remelting) appears on 198 US grants and 162 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C22B- Granted patents
- 198
- Published applications
- 162
- Assignees
- 163
- Inventors
- 469
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 7 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Method for recovering lithium and method for processing lithium ion secondary battery8 Jan 2026US 2026/0011806 A1Dowa Eco-System Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vortex melting system150US 4,286,985 AAluminum Company of America · 1981
- Aluminum scrap reclamation148US 4,128,415 AAluminum Company of America · 1978
- Light gauge metal scrap melting system140US 4,598,899 AKennecott Corporation · 1986
- Method for submerging entraining, melting and circulating metal charge in molten media136US 4,322,245 A1982
- Metal scrap submergence system128US 6,217,823 B1Metaullics Systems Co., L.P. · 2001