H01J 41/12
Discharge tubes for evacuating by diffusion of ions
Official title: Discharge tubes for evacuating by diffusion of ions, e.g. ion pumps, getter ion pumps
H01J41/12 (Discharge tubes for evacuating by diffusion of ions) appears on 137 US grants and 104 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 23 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Vibration damping and resonance reduction for ion pump23 Jun 2026US 12,665,177 B2ASML Netherlands B. V.
- Heat transfer using ionic pumps19 May 2026US 12,633,506 B2Ventiva, Inc.
- Snap-on getter pump assembly and its use31 Mar 2026US 12,590,577 B2Saes Getters S. P. A.
- Modular getters and getters with different materials in vacuum enclosures31 Mar 2026US 12,592,354 B2Varex Imaging Corporation
- Plasma source, and atomic clock employing plasma source12 Aug 2025US 12,389,520 B2National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Ion pump with monitoring system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279748 A1Agilent Technologies, Inc.
- Pumping system including an ion pump and method for operating a pumping system including an ion pump20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245846 A1Agilent Technologies, Inc.
- Vacuum pump13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237617 A1Edwards Vacuum LLC
- Magnetic assembly for a sputter ion pump30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221403 A1Edwards Vacuum LLC
- Ion pump with a monitoring system and method for operating the ion pump14 May 2026US 2026/0135071 A1Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Microminiaturized electrostatic pump85US 5,180,288 AFraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. · 1993
- Charged particle beam apparatus55US 7,582,885 B2Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation · 2009
- Synchrotron radiation generation apparatus53US 5,036,290 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1991
- Micromotors, linear motors, micropumps, methods of using the same, microactuators, methods of controlling flow properties of fluids, and apparatuses for controlling flow properties of fluids48US 6,116,257 ANew Technology Management Co., Ltd. · 2000
- Flywheel system with parallel pumping arrangement41US 6,347,925 B1Beacon Power Corporation · 2002