F16K 1/2266
And being forced into sealing contact with the valve member by a
Official title: {and being forced into sealing contact with the valve member by a spring or a spring-like member}
F16K1/2266 (And being forced into sealing contact with the valve member by a) appears on 90 US grants and 43 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
- 90
- Published applications
- 43
- Assignees
- 65
- Inventors
- 158
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2011 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 5 | 2 |
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| 2017 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 4 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Valve Seat and a Valve Sealing Arrangement of a Valve Assembly20 Jun 2024US 2024/0200668 A1Fisher Controls International LLC
- Valve seat with circumferential rib9 Nov 2023US 2023/0358316 A1Mueller International, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Valve sealing device and a valve47US 4,269,391 AKitamura Valve Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1981
- Self-contained anti-blowout seal for fluids or gases45US 6,641,141 B2Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. · 2003
- Extended temperature range valve seal43US 4,113,268 APosi-Seal International, Inc. · 1978
- All-metal, valve sealing mechanism41US 4,744,572 APosi-Seal International, Inc. · 1988
- Bidirectional pressure-assisted valve seal40US 4,005,848 AFisher Controls Company, Inc. · 1977