F22B 37/003
Maintenance, repairing or inspecting equipment positioned in or via the headers
Official title: {Maintenance, repairing or inspecting equipment positioned in or via the headers}
F22B37/003 (Maintenance, repairing or inspecting equipment positioned in or via the headers) appears on 292 US grants and 130 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F22B- Granted patents
- 292
- Published applications
- 130
- Assignees
- 80
- Inventors
- 488
- Latest grant
- 31 Mar 2026
Filings by year
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| 1981 | 7 | 0 |
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| 2003 | 1 | 3 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 4 |
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| 2009 | 5 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 | 9 |
| 2011 | 2 | 10 |
| 2012 | 7 | 17 |
| 2013 | 8 | 11 |
| 2014 | 14 | 13 |
| 2015 | 7 | 4 |
| 2016 | 11 | 5 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 14 |
| 2019 | 4 | 6 |
| 2020 | 6 | 12 |
| 2021 | 12 | 3 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System, method, and apparatus for inspecting a surface31 Mar 2026US 12,591,239 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc.
- Apparatus and method of removing foreign substances from steam generator1 Jul 2025US 12,345,412 B2Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd.
- System, method, and apparatus for inspecting a surface13 Aug 2024US 12,061,483 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc.
- Inspection robot having adjustable resolution13 Aug 2024US 12,061,484 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc.
- Supports with integrated sensors for nuclear reactor steam generators, and associated systems and methods13 Aug 2024US 12,062,461 B2NuScale Power, LLC
- Supports with integrated sensors for nuclear reactor steam generators, and associated systems and methods28 Nov 2024US 2024/0395426 A1NuScale Power, LLC
- System, method, and apparatus for inspecting a surface17 Oct 2024US 2024/0345580 A1Gecko Robotics, Inc.
- System, method, and apparatus for acoustic inspection of a surface26 Oct 2023US 2023/0341865 A1Gecko Robotics, Inc.
- Inspection robot having adjustable resolution19 Oct 2023US 2023/0333566 A1Gecko Robotics, Inc.
- Apparatus and method of removing foreign substances from steam generator4 May 2023US 2023/0138837 A1Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Flexible cable243US 5,174,164 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1992
- Process for lining a peripheral tube of a steam generator104US 4,827,594 AFramatome · 1989
- Probe carrier system for inspecting boiler tubes103US 4,757,258 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1988
- Controller for inspection robot traversing an obstacle87US 11,148,292 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc. · 2021
- Apparatus and method for remotely positioning a probe in a tubular member83US 5,611,948 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1997