F16B 19/086
Self-piercing rivets
Official title: {Self-piercing rivets}
F16B19/086 (Self-piercing rivets) appears on 158 US grants and 212 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16B- Granted patents
- 158
- Published applications
- 212
- Assignees
- 79
- Inventors
- 301
- Latest grant
- 29 Jul 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Self-piercing rivet and manufacturing method for fastening structure29 Jul 2025US 12,372,110 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Self-piercing rivet4 Mar 2025US 12,241,491 B2Newfrey LLC
- Fastener joint and associated method for avoiding corrosion of dissimilar material fastener joints4 Mar 2025US 12,241,499 B2UT-Battelle, LLC
- Rivet with improved structure for forming flat-bottom riveting of plates10 Dec 2024US 12,163,543 B2Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Clearance hole for self-piercing rivet8 Oct 2024US 12,110,915 B2Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Joining Method And Self-Piercing Joining Element2 Jul 2026US 2026/0183832 A1Newfrey LLC
- Joining method, punch rivet arrangement, die, and punch rivet tool2 Jul 2026US 2026/0183833 A1Newfrey LLC
- Fastener insertion apparatus2 Apr 2026US 2026/0091426 A1Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited
- Self-piercing rivet, method for producing a self-piercing rivet, and method for connecting two elements by a self-piercing rivet16 Oct 2025US 2025/0320888 A1
- Semi-hollow self-piercing rivet, manufacturing method and connection with same2 Oct 2025US 2025/0305529 A1Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Blind fastener device35US 4,388,031 A1983
- Self-penetrating fastening system34US 6,385,843 B1Audi AG · 2002
- Self-piercing pop rivet fasteners29US 4,218,953 A1980
- Self-riveting fastening element29US 5,868,535 AMultifastener Corporation · 1999
- Rivet, riveted joint structure riveting apparatus, and riveting method27US 6,988,862 B1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha · 2006