F16H 55/18
Special devices for taking up backlash
Official title: Special devices for taking up backlash {(for gears having orbital motion F16H1/2863)}
F16H55/18 (Special devices for taking up backlash) appears on 256 US grants and 236 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16H- Granted patents
- 256
- Published applications
- 236
- Assignees
- 202
- Inventors
- 629
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 7 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Lightweight and low noise gear assembly11 Aug 2026US 12,704,172 B2Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
- Anti backlash adjustment mechanism for gears28 Jul 2026US 12,692,933 B2Helios Technical Services, LLC
- Anti-backlash system and method of manufacture5 May 2026US 12,618,465 B1Honeybee Robotics, LLC
- Servo reducer14 Apr 2026US 12,601,402 B2Guangdong Ocean University
- Gear reduction unit with anti-backlash mechanism24 Mar 2026US 12,584,540 B2
- Anti-backlash system and method of manufacture27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251215 A1Honeybee Robotics, LLC
- Sector gear drive mechanism for generating sweeping rotary motion about two perpendicular axes6 Aug 2026US 2026/0226964 A1Viettel Group
- Gearwheel, device and work machine6 Aug 2026US 2026/0226969 A1Deere & Company
- Gear ring assembly25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177138 A1Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
- Gear, assembly and gear mechanism11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160320 A1IMS Gear SE & Co. KGaA
Most cited
By later US patents
- Gear stage assembly with preload torque108US 6,789,442 B2Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · 2004
- Gear46US 5,181,433 AChiba Dies Co., Ltd. · 1993
- Gear arrangement42US 9,121,494 B2Miba Sinter Austria GmbH · 2015
- Gear mechanism with an idler gear, a gear mechanism with a device for eliminating backlash between gears, and a motor driving mechanism40US 6,997,079 B2PENTAX Corporation · 2006
- Anti-backlash gear37US 6,148,684 AHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · 2000