H01J 37/32064
Circuits specially adapted for controlling the arc discharge
Official title: {Circuits specially adapted for controlling the arc discharge (for plasma torches H01H1/36)}
H01J37/32064 (Circuits specially adapted for controlling the arc discharge) appears on 73 US grants and 75 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01J- Granted patents
- 73
- Published applications
- 75
- Assignees
- 44
- Inventors
- 153
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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| 2023 | 3 | 6 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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