F16K 5/205
Sealing effected by the flowing medium
Official title: {Sealing effected by the flowing medium}
F16K5/205 (Sealing effected by the flowing medium) appears on 130 US grants and 96 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
- 130
- Published applications
- 96
- Assignees
- 89
- Inventors
- 215
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 5 | 8 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 |
| 2026 | 4 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Valve seat and a valve sealing arrangement of a valve assembly25 Aug 2026US 12,716,506 B2Fisher Controls International LLC
- Bidirectional one piece metal seat for ball valve28 Apr 2026US 12,612,971 B2Bray International, Inc.
- Drain valve sealing arrangement28 Apr 2026US 12,612,972 B2Goodrich Corporation
- Valve device with floating valve core3 Feb 2026US 12,540,678 B2Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- Systems and methods for double piston effect ball valves30 Dec 2025US 12,510,167 B2SCV Valve, LLC
- Systems and methods for double piston effect ball valves26 Mar 2026US 2026/0085760 A1SCV Valve, LLC
- Systems and methods for double piston effect ball valves4 Sep 2025US 2025/0277531 A1SCV Valve, LLC
- Valve with pressure differential seating23 Jan 2025US 2025/0027568 A1Oil States Energy Services, L.L.C.
- Valve seat and a valve sealing arrangement of a valve assembly19 Dec 2024US 2024/0418273 A1Fisher Controls International LLC
- Valve Device with Floating Valve Core28 Nov 2024US 2024/0392884 A1Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Device providing an effective seal for a spherical rotary slide valve67US 4,511,150 ASociete Nouvelle Auxim (Societe Anonyme) · 1985
- Ball valve having valve chamber venting seal assemblies52US 4,254,793 A1981
- Valve seat and method49US 6,082,707 AGulf Technologies International, L.C. · 2000
- Pressure controlled apparatus for sealing shutoff devices located in pipelines39US 5,533,738 ABorsig Kugelhahn GmbH · 1996
- Ball valve with readily removable ball and seats for high temperature environment36US 4,217,923 AKamyr Valves, Inc. · 1980