F16D 1/072
Involving plastic deformation
Official title: involving plastic deformation (plastic welding F16D1/068)
F16D1/072 (Involving plastic deformation) appears on 307 US grants and 221 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16D- Granted patents
- 307
- Published applications
- 221
- Assignees
- 177
- Inventors
- 648
- Latest grant
- 13 Jan 2026
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| 2002 | 9 | 7 |
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| 2004 | 3 | 12 |
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| 2023 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 9 | 4 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Joining tool for pressing a disk to a shaft, and rotor shaft for an electric machine17 Jun 2025US 12,334,783 B2Dr. Ing. h,c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
- Composite shaft17 Dec 2024US 12,169,002 B2Crompton Technology Group Limited
- Shaft-hub assembly3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258843 A1Stabilus GmbH
- Rotor for a rotary electric machine30 Jan 2025US 2025/0038591 A1Nidec Psa Emotors
- Gear arrangement19 Dec 2024US 2024/0418252 A1
- Shaft assembly13 Jun 2024US 2024/0191757 A1
- Planet carrier assembly, shaft-hub connection, and method for producing the shaft-hub connection between a carrier flange and a carrier from the planet carrier assembly18 Apr 2024US 2024/0125382 A1Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Camshaft assembly and method80US 4,597,365 AGeneral Motors Corporation · 1986
- Press-fit structure of a shaft74US 4,886,392 ADiesel Kiki Co., Ltd. · 1989
- Method for attaching an end-fitting to a drive shaft tube69US 4,807,351 AASEA Composites, Inc. · 1989
- Process for producing built-up camshafts51US 4,660,269 AMusashi Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1987
- Bearing apparatus for wheel48US 6,497,515 B1Ntn Corporation · 2002