F16C 43/02
Assembling sliding-contact bearings
F16C43/02 (Assembling sliding-contact bearings) appears on 584 US grants and 556 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
- Manufacture of diamond bearings356US 4,468,138 AMaurer Engineering Inc. · 1984
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- Bearing assembly, and bearing apparatus and motor assembly using same68US 7,901,137 B1US Synthetic Corporation · 2011