F16B 4/006
Shrinkage connections
Official title: {Shrinkage connections, e.g. assembled with the parts being at different temperature}
F16B4/006 (Shrinkage connections) appears on 79 US grants and 61 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 30 Sep 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Thermal element for a pressing insertion manufacturing process30 Sep 2025US 12,429,206 B2Signify Holding B. V.
- Wear resistant sleeve for composite cylinder18 Mar 2025US 12,252,263 B2Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Transmission wheel and a method for its mounting24 Jan 2023US 11,560,943 B2Andritz Inc.
- System and method for induction shrink fitting20 Dec 2022US 11,533,788 B2Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
- Ball stud and method of manufacturing a ball stud29 Mar 2022US 11,286,975 B2THK RHYTHM AUTOMOTIVE GmbH
- Thermal element for a pressing insertion manufacturing process20 Jun 2024US 2024/0200764 A1Signify Holding B. V.
- Wear resistant sleeve for composite cylinder13 Jun 2024US 2024/0190575 A1Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Application of differential thermal contraction to obtain improved cryogenic interfacial contact15 Jun 2023US 2023/0182240 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Thermally releasable fastening element, in particular for fastening a door actuator26 Jan 2023US 2023/0027773 A1Dormakaba Deutschland GmbH
- System and method for induction shrink fitting17 Nov 2022US 2022/0369429 A1Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Composite tube structure43US 5,318,374 AThe Boeing Company · 1994
- Metal-ceramic fitting assembly31US 4,747,722 AHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1988
- Shrink wrap material and method for protecting articles29US 5,491,017 ATranshield, Inc. · 1996
- Shrink wrap material and method for protecting articles23US 5,623,812 ATranshield Technology AS · 1997
- Insulated heat shrink tool holder21US 6,260,858 B1Induction Technologies · 2001