H05K 2203/16
Inspection
Official title: Inspection; Monitoring; Aligning
H05K2203/16 (Inspection) appears on 2,435 US grants and 2,532 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H05K- Granted patents
- 2,435
- Published applications
- 2,532
- Assignees
- 1,159
- Inventors
- 5,554
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2004 | 61 | 87 |
| 2005 | 39 | 108 |
| 2006 | 62 | 126 |
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| 2019 | 87 | 123 |
| 2020 | 115 | 108 |
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| 2023 | 75 | 75 |
| 2024 | 64 | 74 |
| 2025 | 67 | 57 |
| 2026 | 25 | 135 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H05K 2203/167Using mechanical means for positioning, alignment or registrationIndexing code799
- H05K 2203/163Monitoring a manufacturing processIndexing code593
- H05K 2203/166Alignment or registrationIndexing code543
- H05K 2203/162Testing a finished productIndexing code359
- H05K 2203/161Using chemical substancesIndexing code161
- H05K 2203/168Wrong mounting preventionIndexing code120
- H05K 2203/165StabilizingIndexing code49
Recent patents
- Inspection device, mounting apparatus, inspection method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium8 Sep 2026US 12,733,455 B2Yamaha Robotics Co., Ltd.
- Self correcting oven technology11 Aug 2026US 12,703,036 B2Jabil Inc.
- Press-in machine for pressing components into a substrate, in particular into a printed circuit board or carrier plate, with substrate positioning11 Aug 2026US 12,707,617 B2ERSA GmbH
- Solder joint inspection features21 Jul 2026US 12,690,138 B2Kollmorgen Corporation
- Transparent package for use with printed circuit boards14 Jul 2026US 12,684,689 B2Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
- Method for estimating the level of damage to an element of an assembly, and predictive maintenance method implemented on the basis of such an estimation method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287641 A1Safran Electronics & Defense
- Using glass weave marker structure to authenticate printed circuit boards24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288919 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Semiconductor package warpage and alignment management17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282241 A1Arm Limited
- Circuit board, semiconductor device, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255471 A1Kioxia Corporation
- Method for measuring peel strength of metal-bonded ceramic substrate, method for manufacturing metal-bonded ceramic substrate, and metal bonded ceramic substrate manufactured thereby20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243657 A1Amogreentech Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Component crimping apparatus control method, component crimping apparatus, and measuring tool472US 8,078,310 B2Panasonic Corporation · 2011
- Vehicle lamp411US 5,038,255 AFurukawa Electric Co., Ltd. · 1991
- Process for controlling solder joint geometry when surface mounting a leadless integrated circuit package on a substrate244US 4,878,611 AAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories · 1989
- Flexible preformed planar structures for interposing between a chip and a substrate242US 5,489,804 ALSI Logic Corporation · 1996
- Process for interconnecting conductive substrates using an interposer having conductive plastic filled vias220US 5,468,681 ALSI Logic Corporation · 1995