F16C 17/105
With at least one bearing surface providing angular contact
Official title: {with at least one bearing surface providing angular contact, e.g. conical or spherical bearing surfaces}
F16C17/105 (With at least one bearing surface providing angular contact) appears on 197 US grants and 153 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16C- Granted patents
- 197
- Published applications
- 153
- Assignees
- 89
- Inventors
- 333
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 8 | 6 |
| 2025 | 6 | 7 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Wear resistant bearing system2 Dec 2025US 12,486,868 B2Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.
- Fluid film bearing, especially for a rotor hub in a wind turbine27 May 2025US 12,313,041 B2Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S
- Spindle motor with bearing part arrangement and disk driving device having same20 May 2025US 12,308,047 B2Nidec Corporation
- Wear resistant bearing system5 Mar 2026US 2026/0063170 A1Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc.
- Pivot column bearing for a pivotable fin stabilizer25 Sep 2025US 2025/0296665 A1
- Bearing assemblies, apparatuses, and methods including bearing elements28 Aug 2025US 2025/0271028 A1US Synthetic Corporation
- Bearing assemblies, apparatuses, and methods including bearing elements21 Aug 2025US 2025/0263980 A1US Synthetic Corporation
- Bearing temperature reduction through sleeve modification14 Aug 2025US 2025/0256316 A1Primetals Technologies USA LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Spindle motor having air dynamic pressure bearing and rotating device having the spindle motor as driving source81US 6,127,756 ASeiko Instruments Inc. · 2000
- Flow-regulating hydrodynamic bearing60US 5,246,294 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1993
- Rotary-anode X-ray tube51US 4,210,371 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1980
- Hydrodynamic bearing49US 5,112,142 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1992
- In-hub spindle motor with separate fluid dynamic bearings42US 6,118,620 ASeagate Technology LLC · 2000