G01B 7/281
For measuring contour or curvature along an axis
Official title: {for measuring contour or curvature along an axis, e.g. axial curvature of a pipeline or along a series of feeder rollers}
G01B7/281 (For measuring contour or curvature along an axis) appears on 67 US grants and 37 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01B- Granted patents
- 67
- Published applications
- 37
- Assignees
- 66
- Inventors
- 152
- Latest grant
- 17 Jun 2025
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| 2024 | 1 | 2 |
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
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- Sensor strip and device for measuring geometric shapes18 Jan 2024US 2024/0019239 A1Minktec GmbH
- Method and device for determining centers of a hollow shaft rotatably clamped as a workpiece in a machine tool18 May 2023US 2023/0152079 A1Niles-Simmons Industrieanlagen GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for accurate pipeline surveying81US 6,553,322 B1Honeywell International Inc. · 2003
- Calibration of eddy current profilometry79US 4,942,545 ACombustion Engineering, Inc. · 1990
- Apparatus and method for accurate pipeline surveying42US 6,768,959 B2Honeywell International Inc. · 2004
- Crawler vehicle with automatic probe normalization35US 11,548,577 B2King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · 2023
- Non-differential elastomer curvature sensor34US 9,228,822 B2President and Fellows of Harvard College · 2016