F16B 5/025
Specially designed to compensate for misalignement or to eliminate unwanted play
Official title: {specially designed to compensate for misalignement or to eliminate unwanted play}
F16B5/025 (Specially designed to compensate for misalignement or to eliminate unwanted play) appears on 303 US grants and 323 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16B- Granted patents
- 303
- Published applications
- 323
- Assignees
- 237
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- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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| 2025 | 19 | 16 |
| 2026 | 6 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Tolerance compensation device16 Jun 2026US 12,655,861 B2Witte Automotive GmbH
- Device for removing misalignments between flanges2 Jun 2026US 12,644,480 B2Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras
- Fastening system19 May 2026US 12,631,202 B2Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
- Device for compensating for tolerances10 Feb 2026US 12,546,349 B2Witte Automotive GmbH
- Reduced-mass floating-nut system and method for assembling two parts using said system27 Jan 2026US 12,535,092 B2Airbus Operations GmbH
- Indexing Compensation Fastener1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298269 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Tolerance Compensation Fastening Assembly and Fastening System23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210385 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Fastening device for connecting a rail element to a structual element of a vehicle, and rail element25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177097 A1
- Fastening arrangement for fastening a pump housing, holding device, pump arrangement, vehicle seat, motor vehicle18 Jun 2026US 2026/0167075 A1Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
- Tolerance-compensation unit and fastening assembly having a tolerance-compensation function28 May 2026US 2026/0146480 A1Minebea Accesssolutions Italia S.P.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Telescopic nut86US 6,905,298 B12005
- Method for compensating for bolt hole misalignment and bolt assemblies therefor75US 5,326,206 ANorthrop Corporation · 1994
- Inset panel fastener with shoulder-engaging floating member52US 5,378,099 A1995
- Misalignment compensating fastener insert45US 5,141,357 ASundstrand Corporation · 1992
- Fastening assembly with improved handling properties45US 7,229,443 B2Biedermann Motech GmbH · 2007