H01R 43/0221
Laser welding
Official title: {Laser welding (H01R43/0228 takes precedence)}
H01R43/0221 (Laser welding) appears on 221 US grants and 247 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01R- Granted patents
- 221
- Published applications
- 247
- Assignees
- 159
- Inventors
- 615
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 2024 | 15 | 16 |
| 2025 | 13 | 10 |
| 2026 | 8 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Electrical assembly18 Aug 2026US 12,712,295 B2Lear Corporation
- Method for forming a connection between a busbar and a contact section, a busbar having a contact section and power distribution system having such busbar11 Aug 2026US 12,706,426 B2Rogers Corporation
- Method for connecting an electrical cable to a contact piece16 Jun 2026US 12,658,608 B2Komax Holding AG
- Busbar and method of manufacturing busbar26 May 2026US 12,640,280 B2Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Semi-finished product provided with a window for laser welding for manufacturing an electrical contact element, method for manufacturing an electrical contact element and electrical contact element12 May 2026US 12,627,109 B2TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
- Connection structure, bus bar, and terminal block6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229828 A1Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
- Connector for implantable medical device2 Jul 2026US 2026/0183553 A1Greatbatch Ltd.
- Method and apparatus for laser-welding at least two conductor pieces, and assembly of at least two integrally bonded conductor pieces25 Jun 2026US 2026/0180274 A1Trumpf Laser GmbH
- Laser welded strain relief18 Jun 2026US 2026/0171708 A1Aptiv Technologies AG
- Systems and methods of gap control for quality busbar welds4 Jun 2026US 2026/0155586 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Terminal-carrying circuit board93US 5,656,798 AMatsushita Electric Works, Ltd. · 1997
- Cable clamp89US 6,686,542 B2Hon Hai Precision Ind.Co., Ltd. · 2004
- Cable header connector68US 8,888,533 B2Tyco Electronics Corporation · 2014
- System for laser-welding components of an implantable device48US 5,877,472 APacesetter, Inc. · 1999
- Method of connecting and structure of connecting electric wire and connection terminal32US 7,705,265 B2Yazaki Corporation · 2010