Y10T 117/1032
Seed pulling
Y10T117/1032 (Seed pulling) appears on 1,102 US grants and 661 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y10T- Granted patents
- 1,102
- Published applications
- 661
- Assignees
- 352
- Inventors
- 1,662
- Latest grant
- 7 Apr 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
| 1977 | 9 | 0 |
| 1978 | 9 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 18 | 0 |
| 1981 | 16 | 0 |
| 1982 | 18 | 0 |
| 1983 | 13 | 0 |
| 1984 | 8 | 0 |
| 1985 | 14 | 0 |
| 1986 | 22 | 0 |
| 1987 | 16 | 0 |
| 1988 | 9 | 0 |
| 1989 | 14 | 0 |
| 1990 | 26 | 0 |
| 1991 | 15 | 0 |
| 1992 | 27 | 0 |
| 1993 | 19 | 0 |
| 1994 | 25 | 0 |
| 1995 | 27 | 0 |
| 1996 | 19 | 0 |
| 1997 | 15 | 0 |
| 1998 | 40 | 0 |
| 1999 | 83 | 0 |
| 2000 | 60 | 0 |
| 2001 | 38 | 8 |
| 2002 | 30 | 32 |
| 2003 | 23 | 34 |
| 2004 | 28 | 28 |
| 2005 | 21 | 36 |
| 2006 | 18 | 40 |
| 2007 | 24 | 54 |
| 2008 | 42 | 46 |
| 2009 | 26 | 47 |
| 2010 | 31 | 68 |
| 2011 | 20 | 41 |
| 2012 | 46 | 50 |
| 2013 | 29 | 38 |
| 2014 | 42 | 44 |
| 2015 | 37 | 35 |
| 2016 | 28 | 10 |
| 2017 | 29 | 5 |
| 2018 | 16 | 10 |
| 2019 | 11 | 4 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 4 | 15 |
| 2023 | 2 | 5 |
| 2024 | 7 | 6 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- Y10T 117/1068Including heating or cooling details [e.g., shield configuration]437
- Y10T 117/1072Including details of means providing product movement [e.g., shaft guides, servo means]293
- Y10T 117/1052Including a sectioned crucible [e.g., double crucible, baffle]217
- Y10T 117/1036Including solid member shaping means other than seed or product [e.g., edfg180
- Y10T 117/1056Including details of precursor replenishment154
- Y10T 117/1064Including a fully-sealed or vacuum-maintained crystallization chamber [e.g., ampoule]75
- Y10T 117/106Including sealing means details42
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for producing a single crystal silicon ingot using a vaporized dopant7 Apr 2026US 12,595,584 B2GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for producing a single crystal silicon ingot using a vaporized dopant23 Dec 2025US 12,503,790 B2GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
- Fins on crucible or gussets on refractory lining for facilitating exclusion of impurities from a boule2 Sep 2025US 12,404,600 B2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Single crystal growth susceptor assembly with sacrifice ring6 May 2025US 12,291,795 B2GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
- Heater assembly and single crystal puller1 Apr 2025US 12,264,409 B2Xi'an Eswin Material Technology Co., Ltd.
- Fins on crucible or gussets on refractory lining for facilitating exclusion of impurities from a boule13 Aug 2026US 2026/0234831 A1Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Fins on crucible or gussets on refractory lining for facilitating exclusion of impurities from a boule5 Dec 2024US 2024/0401227 A1Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Heater Assembly and Single Crystal Puller10 Oct 2024US 2024/0337043 A1Xi'an Eswin Material Technology Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for producing a single crystal silicon ingot using a vaporized dopant19 Sep 2024US 2024/0309541 A1GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
- Methods of growing single crystal ingots using susceptor assembly with sacrifice ring19 Sep 2024US 2024/0309543 A1GlobalWafers Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- High pressure high temperature growth of crystalline group III metal nitrides300US 7,063,741 B2General Electric Company · 2006
- Method and apparatus for growing crystals219US 5,997,636 AInstrumentation Technology Associates, Inc. · 1999
- Pressurized skull crucible for crystal growth using the Czochralski technique95US 5,863,326 ACermet, Inc. · 1999
- Apparatus for producing single crystal and quasi-single crystal, and associated method95US 7,368,015 B2Momentive Performance Materials Inc. · 2008
- Crystals for a semiconductor radiation detector and method for making the crystals76US 7,316,746 B2General Electric Company · 2008