E21B 1/24
The impulse member being a piston driven directly by fluid pressure
Official title: the impulse member being a piston driven directly by fluid pressure
E21B1/24 (The impulse member being a piston driven directly by fluid pressure) appears on 69 US grants and 62 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E21B- Granted patents
- 69
- Published applications
- 62
- Assignees
- 41
- Inventors
- 149
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2006 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 3 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 3 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5 |
| 2017 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 4 | 7 |
| 2023 | 6 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 | 16 |
| 2025 | 13 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Hydraulic impact mechanism for use in equipment for processing rock and concrete16 Jun 2026US 12,655,687 B2T-Rig Limited
- Down-the-hole hammer with ported piston and flow control valve21 Apr 2026US 12,607,069 B2Caterpillar Inc.
- Valve-controlled high-energy hydrostatic down-the-hole impact hammer23 Dec 2025US 12,503,915 B2Southwest Petroleum University
- Arrangement and method for heating hydraulic impact device25 Nov 2025US 12,480,364 B2Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy
- Valve cylinder, impact device and method2 Sep 2025US 12,404,725 B2Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy
- Hydraulic Hammering Device7 May 2026US 2026/0125951 A1Furukawa Rock Drill Co., Ltd.
- Earth Drilling Device16 Oct 2025US 2025/0320780 A1TRACTO-TECHNIK GmbH & Co. KG
- Hydraulic impact mechanism for use in equipment for processing rock and concrete27 Mar 2025US 2025/0101807 A1T-Rig Limited
- Valve cylinder, impact device and method23 Jan 2025US 2025/0027368 A1Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy
- Down-the-hole hammer with ported piston and flow control valve21 Nov 2024US 2024/0384597 A1Caterpillar Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Percussive tool12US 4,690,225 AInstitut Gornogo Dela Sibirskogo Otdelenia Akademii Nauk SSSR · 1987
- Damping device for a percussion rock drilling machine12US 4,871,035 AAtlas Copco Aktiebolag · 1989
- Hammer drill10US 4,690,226 AMetabowerke GmbH · 1987
- Pneumatic motor for rock drills and the like8US 4,429,752 AJoy Manufacturing Company · 1984
- Pneumatic rock drill with peripheral piston clearance space7US 3,991,835 AJoy Manufacturing Company · 1976