F16C 32/0607
The gas being retained in a gap
Official title: {the gas being retained in a gap, e.g. squeeze film bearings}
F16C32/0607 (The gas being retained in a gap) appears on 66 US grants and 61 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 61
- Assignees
- 39
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- 135
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Self-dehumidifying hydrostatic gas bearing16 Jun 2026US 12,655,871 B2Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute
- Floating-sleeve hybrid fluid bearing1 Oct 2024US 12,104,644 B2Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University Erica Campus
- Support table for a lithographic apparatus, method of loading a substrate, lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method13 Feb 2024US 11,898,601 B2ASML Netherlands B. V.
- Air bearing apparatus for calibrating force measurement devices13 Feb 2024US 11,898,921 B2Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
- Air bearing cooling path for compressor device24 Oct 2023US 11,799,099 B2Garrett Transportation I Inc.
- Foil bearing structure with damping30 Apr 2026US 2026/0117817 A1Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Aerodynamic bearing for axial and/or radial mounting of a shaft as well as methods of manufacture of such a bearing31 Jul 2025US 2025/0243901 A1
- Aerodynamic bearing as well as a bearing arrangement comprising two aerodynamic bearings formed as radial bearings31 Jul 2025US 2025/0243902 A1
- Self-Dehumidifying Hydrostatic Gas Bearing19 Jun 2025US 2025/0198459 A1Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute
- Air bearing apparatus for calibrating force measurement devices23 Nov 2023US 2023/0375427 A1Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Planar and cylindrical oscillating pneumatodynamic bearings25US 4,666,315 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1987
- Object levitating apparatus object transporting apparatus and object levitating bearing along with an object levitating process and object transporting process25US 5,810,155 AKaijo Corporation · 1998
- Tubular squeeze bearing apparatus with rotational restraint16US 4,630,941 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1986
- Air bearing shaft13US 8,734,017 B1Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation · 2014
- Object levitating apparatus, object transporting apparatus, and object levitating bearing along with an object levitating process and object transporting process11US 5,890,580 AKaijo Corporation · 1999