D04H 18/02
Needling machines: with needles
Official title: with needles
D04H18/02 (Needling machines: with needles) appears on 350 US grants and 209 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D04H- Granted patents
- 350
- Published applications
- 209
- Assignees
- 148
- Inventors
- 429
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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| 2000 | 8 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 14 | 9 |
| 2003 | 6 | 8 |
| 2004 | 10 | 6 |
| 2005 | 3 | 13 |
| 2006 | 5 | 9 |
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| 2023 | 7 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13 |
| 2025 | 18 | 6 |
| 2026 | 5 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Tooling for producing z-channels in ceramic fiber preforms14 Jul 2026US 12,678,990 B2Rtx Corporation
- Needling system for producing a textile preform19 May 2026US 12,630,953 B2Arianegroup SAS
- In-situ compaction during z-fiber reinforcement of dry fiber preforms31 Mar 2026US 12,589,525 B2Goodrich Corporation
- Sheathed metallic needles for producing z-channels in fibrous preforms10 Feb 2026US 12,545,628 B2Rtx Corporation
- Systems and methods for through thickness reinforcement using roll-to-roll veil cloth27 Jan 2026US 12,534,836 B2Goodrich Corporation
- Nonwoven wearable articles with zonal properties and systems and methods for manufacturing4 Jun 2026US 2026/0152890 A1
- Method for producing a nonwoven fabric used as an engine hood insulator material22 Jan 2026US 2026/0022503 A1Hassan Tekstil Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S.
- Joining composite preform components via through thickness reinforcement30 Oct 2025US 2025/0332798 A1Goodrich Corporation
- Composite and methods of making same25 Sep 2025US 2025/0297413 A1Columbia Insurance Company
- Systems and methods for through thickness reinforcement using roll-to-roll veil cloth21 Aug 2025US 2025/0263877 A1Goodrich Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for manufacturing homogeneously needled three-dimensional structures of fibrous material89US 4,790,052 ASociete Europeenne de Propulsion · 1988
- Clean dry facing needled composite85US 5,470,326 AMcNeil-PPC, Inc. · 1995
- Forming loop materials77US 7,547,469 B2Velcro Industries B. V. · 2009
- Method of producing needled, structured and textile webs69US 5,144,730 AOskar Dilo Maschinenfabrik KG · 1992
- Needling through carrier sheets to form loops65US 7,156,937 B2Velcro Industries B. V. · 2007