F16C 27/066
Ball or roller bearings
Official title: {Ball or roller bearings}
F16C27/066 (Ball or roller bearings) appears on 487 US grants and 422 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16C- Granted patents
- 487
- Published applications
- 422
- Assignees
- 304
- Inventors
- 1,077
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2023 | 18 | 22 |
| 2024 | 16 | 16 |
| 2025 | 18 | 20 |
| 2026 | 9 | 20 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Dental handpiece9 Jul 2026US 2026/0191620 A1Nakanishi Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Electric power assisting steering apparatus65US 6,044,723 ANsk Ltd. · 2000
- Steerable suspension bearing assembly50US 4,462,608 AGeneral Motors Corporation · 1984
- Thrust ball bearing unit47US 4,699,530 AOiless Industry Co., Ltd. · 1987
- Rolling bearing45US 5,071,264 AFranke & Heydrich KG · 1991
- Radial lip seal with interposed bearing44US 5,370,404 AFirma Carl Freudenberg · 1994