F26B 5/041
For drying flowable materials
Official title: {for drying flowable materials, e.g. suspensions, bulk goods, in a continuous operation, e.g. with locks or other air tight arrangements for charging/discharging}
F26B5/041 (For drying flowable materials) appears on 94 US grants and 60 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F26B- Granted patents
- 94
- Published applications
- 60
- Assignees
- 80
- Inventors
- 220
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Rotating-screw drying reactor10 Mar 2026US 12,571,588 B2Technische UniversitäT Dortmund
- Supersonic dehydration and disinfection system and method5 Aug 2025US 12,379,156 B2
- Steel grit dryer7 Jan 2025US 12,186,859 B2
- Cleaning method for substrate accommodation container and cleaning apparatus for substrate accommodation container24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284723 A1Kioxia Corporation
- System and method for conditioning abrasive media30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216844 A1
- Continuous freeze-drying system with rotating helical tube and continuous freeze-drying method16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202129 A1Syntegon Telstar Technologies S.L.U.
- Vacuum Condensing Dryer with Heat Pump23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110483 A1LG Chem.Ltd.
- Supersonic dehydration and disinfection system and method25 Dec 2025US 2025/0389482 A1Adar Technologies, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vacuum-type automatic dehumidifying and drying apparatus for powdered or granular material72US 6,163,976 AKabushikikaisha Matsui Seisakusho · 2000
- Spray drying system57US 5,624,530 AUltrasonic Dryer, Ltd. · 1997
- High efficiency material drying55US 4,330,946 A1982
- Method and apparatus for dehydrating fruit49US 5,020,237 AThe J. M. Smucker Company · 1991
- Method and apparatus for dehydrating fruit49US 5,135,122 AThe J. M. Smucker Company · 1992