F16F 15/36
Operating automatically , i.e. where, for a given amount of imbalance, there
Official title: operating automatically {, i.e. where, for a given amount of imbalance, there is movement of masses until balance is achieved (damping vibrations of washing machines by displacing, supplying or ejecting a material, e.g. liquid, into or from counterbalancing pockets D06F37/245)}
F16F15/36 (Operating automatically , i.e. where, for a given amount of imbalance, there) appears on 229 US grants and 172 published applications in this corpus.
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- Pneumatic-liquid auto-balance actuator with large diameter14 Apr 2026US 12,601,389 B2Beijing University of Technology
- Apparatus for stabilization of an instrumentation platform27 Jan 2026US 12,535,121 B2Vale S.A.
- Method for actively balancing a rotor, and device comprising a rotor and a mechanism paired with the rotor for actively balancing same21 Oct 2025US 12,449,017 B2Technische UniversitäT Berlin
- Support Arm For Wheel Balancer Air Inflation Hose1 Jan 2026US 2026/0002611 A1Hunter Engineering Company
- System and method for tire balancing8 May 2025US 2025/0144963 A1Counteract Balancing Beads Inc.
- Clothing processing apparatus6 Feb 2025US 2025/0043492 A1LG Electronics Inc.
- Engine trim balance system6 Feb 2025US 2025/0043802 A1Rtx Corporation
- Pneumatic-liquid auto-balance actuator with large diameter12 Dec 2024US 2024/0410443 A1Beijing University of Chemical Technology
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By later US patents
- Method for adjusting rotation balance of disk and device for the same77US 5,811,678 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998
- Damping system for vibrating members59US 5,820,348 A1998
- Dynamic rotational counterbalance structure53US 4,674,356 A1987
- Damping systems for vibrating members51US 6,224,341 B1Edge Innovations & Technology, LLC · 2001
- Apparatus for balancing bodies of revolution47US 4,295,387 A1981