CPC Subgroup
B21D 28/02 Punching blanks or articles with or without obtaining scrap (cutting nails or pins from strips or sheet material B21G3/26); Notching
Full Title
Shaping by press-cutting; Perforating > Punching blanks or articles with or without obtaining scrap (cutting nails or pins from strips or sheet material B21G3/26); Notching
9 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B21D 28/04 Centering the work; Positioning the tools
- B21D 28/06 Making more than one part out of the same blank; Scrapless working
- B21D 28/10 Incompletely punching in such a manner that the parts are still coherent with the work
- B21D 28/12 Punching using rotatable carriers
- B21D 28/14 Dies (ejecting or stripping-off devices arranged in punching machines or tools B21D45/00)
- B21D 28/16 Shoulder or burr prevention
- B21D 28/18 Yieldable, e.g. rubber, punching pads
- B21D 28/20 Applications of drives
- B21D 28/22 Notching the peripheries of circular blanks, e.g. laminations for dynamo-electric machines
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B21, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- JFE STEEL JP 2,667
- NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION JP 2,049
- POSCO (POHANG IRON AND STEEL COMPANY) KR 1,967
- NSSMC (NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL) JP 1,800
- SMS GROUP DE 1,538
- JFE STEEL 1,150
- ARCELORMITTAL LU 1,142
- BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL COMPANY 821
- HYUNDAI STEEL COMPANY KR 808
- THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE DE 660