F16C 31/02
Sliding-contact bearings
F16C31/02 (Sliding-contact bearings) appears on 52 US grants and 57 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16C- Granted patents
- 52
- Published applications
- 57
- Assignees
- 54
- Inventors
- 131
- Latest grant
- 2 Dec 2025
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| 2023 | 5 | 7 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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