F16C 29/025
Hydrostatic or aerostatic
Official title: {Hydrostatic or aerostatic (this type of bearing for rotary parts F16C32/06)}
F16C29/025 (Hydrostatic or aerostatic) appears on 343 US grants and 252 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16C- Granted patents
- 343
- Published applications
- 252
- Assignees
- 203
- Inventors
- 630
- Latest grant
- 17 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Bearing support for a fluid bearing of a closed-cycle engine17 Mar 2026US 12,577,984 B2Hyliion Holdings Corp.
- Asymmetric gas bearing bushing for thermo-pump21 Oct 2025US 12,448,963 B2KLA Corporation
- Gas restriction structure constituting aerostatic bearing, and aerostatic bearing30 Sep 2025US 12,429,090 B2Oiles Corporation
- Electron beam inspection system9 Sep 2025US 12,412,728 B2JEOL Ltd.
- High precision machine tool having linear drive- and guide bearing24 Jun 2025US 12,337,430 B2Kern Microtechnik GmbH
- Hybrid bearing stage6 Aug 2026US 2026/0226941 A1
- Hydrostatic gas bearing device28 May 2026US 2026/0146645 A1KYOCERA Corporation
- Gas pressure driving device, positioning device, processing device, and device manufacturing method19 Feb 2026US 2026/0048461 A1Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Friction damper16 Oct 2025US 2025/0320904 A1
- Bearing support for a fluid bearing of a closed-cycle engine18 Sep 2025US 2025/0290544 A1Hyliion Holdings Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Gas bearings for use with vacuum chambers and their application in lithographic projection apparatuses483US 6,603,130 B1ASML Netherlands B. V. · 2003
- Movement guiding mechanism118US 5,040,431 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1991
- High-Performance non-contact support platforms93US 7,530,778 B2Coreflow Ltd. · 2009
- Movement guiding mechanism86US 4,916,340 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1990
- Non-contact support platforms for distance adjustment83US 7,604,439 B2Coreflow Scientific Solutions Ltd. · 2009