F26B 21/471
Condensing vapours onto the surface of the materials to be dried
Official title: {condensing vapours onto the surface of the materials to be dried}
F26B21/471 (Condensing vapours onto the surface of the materials to be dried) appears on 48 US grants and 14 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F26B- Granted patents
- 48
- Published applications
- 14
- Assignees
- 35
- Inventors
- 103
- Latest grant
- 18 Nov 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Treatment of parts by vaporized solvent18 Nov 2025US 12,472,708 B2Peridot Print LLC
- Drying high aspect ratio features6 Apr 2021US 10,971,354 B2APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Vapor supplying apparatus, vapor drying apparatus, vapor supplying method, and vapor drying method7 Apr 2020US 10,612,844 B2SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Method for drying a gas chamber and arrangement comprising a protective gas-filled chamber16 Jul 2019US 10,352,618 B2WIKA Alexander Weigand SE & Co. KG
- Method and apparatus for drying substrate5 Feb 2019US 10,197,333 B2Semes Co., Ltd.
- Treatment of parts by vaporized solvent6 Jun 2024US 2024/0181728 A1Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Molecular mobility enhancer or molecular drying enhancer20 Apr 2023US 2023/0123589 A1Tekdry International, Inc.
- Vapor supplying apparatus, vapor drying apparatus, vapor supplying method, and vapor drying method23 Aug 2018US 2018/0238621 A1SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Method for Drying a Gas Chamber and Arrangement Comprising a Protective Gas-Filled Chamber29 Mar 2018US 2018/0087839 A1Innogy Netze Deutschland GmbH
- Drying high aspect ratio features18 Jan 2018US 2018/0019119 A1APPLIED Materials.Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vapor washing process and apparatus105US 5,105,556 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1992
- Method and apparatus for drying parts and microelectronic components using sonic created mist56US 5,653,045 A1997
- Vapor device and method for drying articles such as semiconductor wafers with substances such as isopropyl alcohol53US 5,115,576 ASemifab Incorporated · 1992
- Process for the extraction of oil or polychlorinated biphenyl from electrical parts through the use of solvents and for distillation of the solvents49US 4,879,004 AMicafil AG · 1989
- Vapor drying apparatus48US 4,736,758 AWacom Co., Ltd. · 1988