F16C 27/02
Sliding-contact bearings
F16C27/02 (Sliding-contact bearings) appears on 636 US grants and 561 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16C- Granted patents
- 636
- Published applications
- 561
- Assignees
- 362
- Inventors
- 1,239
- Latest grant
- 30 Jun 2026
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| 2026 | 13 | 22 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Coaxial joint108US 4,636,106 ATzora Furniture Industries Ltd. · 1987
- Bearing assemblies, and bearing apparatuses and motor assemblies using same100US 7,870,913 B1US Synthetic Corporation · 2011
- Hydrostatic and active control movable pad bearing99US 5,743,654 AKMC, Inc. · 1998
- Turbocharger integrated bearing system81US 6,017,184 AAllied-Signal Inc. · 2000
- Bearing apparatuses, systems including same, and related methods71US 7,703,982 B2US Synthetic Corporation · 2010