F22B 37/005
Positioning apparatus specially adapted therefor
Official title: {Positioning apparatus specially adapted therefor (F22B37/64 takes precedence)}
F22B37/005 (Positioning apparatus specially adapted therefor) appears on 72 US grants and 36 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F22B- Granted patents
- 72
- Published applications
- 36
- Assignees
- 39
- Inventors
- 155
- Latest grant
- 1 Jul 2025
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| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Apparatus and method of removing foreign substances from steam generator1 Jul 2025US 12,345,412 B2Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd.
- Flexible lance for machining or inspecting a tubesheet of a boiler13 Jul 2021US 11,060,718 B2Framatome
- Drilling apparatus for working on tubes in a radioactive environment13 Apr 2021US 10,974,326 B2Westinghouse Electric Germany GmbH
- Drilling device for machining tubes in tube sheets in a radioactive environment3 Nov 2020US 10,821,524 B2Westinghouse Electric Germany GmbH
- System, method and apparatus for aligning tubes of a heat exchanger14 Jan 2020US 10,532,436 B2General Electric Technology GmbH
- Apparatus and method of removing foreign substances from steam generator4 May 2023US 2023/0138837 A1Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd.
- Drilling device for machining tubes in tube sheets in a radioactive environment3 Oct 2019US 2019/0299300 A1Westinghouse Electric Germany GmbH
- Drilling apparatus for working on tubes in a radioactive environment3 Oct 2019US 2019/0299301 A1Westinghouse Electric Germany GmbH
- Flexible lance for machining or inspecting a tubesheet of a boiler6 Dec 2018US 2018/0347807 A1Framatome
- System, method and apparatus for aligning tubes of a heat exchanger14 Dec 2017US 2017/0355046 A1General Electric Technology GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Rapid installation tube gripper50US 4,643,472 ACombustion Engineering, Inc. · 1987
- Probe positioner46US 4,302,146 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1981
- Robotic system for servicing the heat exchanger tubes of a nuclear steam generator45US 5,355,063 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1994
- Manipulator for inspection and possible repair of the tubes of heat exchangers, especially of steam generators for nuclear reactors33US 4,231,419 AKraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft · 1980
- Apparatus for remotely repairing tubes in a steam generator28US 4,216,893 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1980