F26B 5/08
Drying solid materials or objects by processes not involving the application of
Official title: by centrifugal treatment
F26B5/08 (Drying solid materials or objects by processes not involving the application of) appears on 272 US grants and 199 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F26B- Granted patents
- 272
- Published applications
- 199
- Assignees
- 173
- Inventors
- 551
- Latest grant
- 30 Jun 2026
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| 2023 | 12 | 6 |
| 2024 | 9 | 13 |
| 2025 | 6 | 8 |
| 2026 | 6 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Drying devices including a rotatable interior container30 Jun 2026US 12,669,284 B2Lagom Kitchen Co.
- Continuous centrifugal dewatering device12 May 2026US 12,623,234 B2LG Chem.Ltd.
- Apparatus for cooling and/or drying a shrink chuck and method for cooling and/or drying a tool holder, in particular a shrink chuck31 Mar 2026US 12,589,438 B2Haimer GmbH
- Spin rinse dryer with improved drying characteristics31 Mar 2026US 12,590,760 B2SPTS Technologies Limited
- Substrate treating apparatus10 Feb 2026US 12,546,534 B2Semes Co., Ltd.
- Plastic drying device18 Jun 2026US 2026/0168727 A1Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Continuous-operation umbrella drying machine12 Mar 2026US 2026/0071814 A1
- Dryer screen quick release latch22 Jan 2026US 2026/0022720 A1Maag Gala, Inc.
- Device and method for drying sporting equipment such as footballs11 Dec 2025US 2025/0377161 A1
- Automated dryer6 Nov 2025US 2025/0341364 A1Maag Gala, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Downflow spin dryer525US 5,577,331 ANippon Precision Circuits Inc. · 1996
- Method for removing in a centrifuge a liquid from a surface of a substrate127US 5,271,774 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1993
- Semiconductor processor with extendible receiver for handling multiple discrete wafers without wafer carriers90US 5,174,045 ASemitool, Inc. · 1992
- Method and apparatus for drying wafers86US 4,313,266 ASilicon Valley Group, Inc. · 1982
- Apparatus for processing wafers and the like74US 4,750,505 ADainippon Screen Mfg.Co., Ltd. · 1988