F16C 32/06
Bearings not otherwise provided for: with moving member supported by a fluid
Official title: with moving member supported by a fluid cushion formed, at least to a large extent, otherwise than by movement of the shaft, e.g. hydrostatic air-cushion bearings
F16C32/06 (Bearings not otherwise provided for: with moving member supported by a fluid) appears on 1,434 US grants and 1,013 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16C- Granted patents
- 1,434
- Published applications
- 1,013
- Assignees
- 674
- Inventors
- 2,418
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 29 | 0 |
| 1977 | 20 | 0 |
| 1978 | 26 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 26 | 0 |
| 1981 | 14 | 0 |
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| 1983 | 19 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 14 | 0 |
| 1998 | 23 | 0 |
| 1999 | 26 | 0 |
| 2000 | 30 | 0 |
| 2001 | 36 | 9 |
| 2002 | 27 | 24 |
| 2003 | 31 | 25 |
| 2004 | 23 | 35 |
| 2005 | 13 | 20 |
| 2006 | 24 | 37 |
| 2007 | 25 | 16 |
| 2008 | 13 | 24 |
| 2009 | 11 | 29 |
| 2010 | 17 | 49 |
| 2011 | 23 | 22 |
| 2012 | 26 | 32 |
| 2013 | 37 | 54 |
| 2014 | 51 | 81 |
| 2015 | 46 | 51 |
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| 2017 | 43 | 42 |
| 2018 | 47 | 63 |
| 2019 | 59 | 56 |
| 2020 | 64 | 62 |
| 2021 | 43 | 44 |
| 2022 | 41 | 37 |
| 2023 | 45 | 51 |
| 2024 | 45 | 35 |
| 2025 | 35 | 26 |
| 2026 | 12 | 26 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Hydrostatic gas bearing with humidity removed by electrical heating25 Aug 2026US 12,716,451 B2Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute
- Static gas thrust bearing18 Aug 2026US 12,710,050 B2Garrett Transportation I Inc.
- Air bearing shaft with wide operating temperature range11 Aug 2026US 12,706,271 B2APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Spherical fluid-film bearing23 Jun 2026US 12,663,040 B2Kingsbury, Inc.
- Self-dehumidifying hydrostatic gas bearing16 Jun 2026US 12,655,871 B2Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute
- High speed electrical machine1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302869 A1Celeroton Turbocell AG
- High speed electrical machine1 Oct 2026US 2026/0302870 A1Celeroton Turbocell AG
- Sliding component27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251178 A1Eagle Industry Co., Ltd.
- Ultrasonic air bearing spindle device13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233351 A1RPS Corporation
- Hybrid bearing stage6 Aug 2026US 2026/0226941 A1
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
- Lubricating system for bearing shoes147US 4,209,079 AFives-Cail Babcock · 1980
- Movement guiding mechanism118US 5,040,431 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1991
- Hydrostatic and active control movable pad bearing99US 5,743,654 AKMC, Inc. · 1998
- High-Performance non-contact support platforms93US 7,530,778 B2Coreflow Ltd. · 2009