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B23B 39/00

General-purpose boring or drilling machines or devices; Sets of boring and/or drilling machines

10 direct subcodes

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  • B23B 39/02 Boring machines; Combined horizontal boring and milling machines
  • B23B 39/10 characterised by the drive, e.g. by fluid-pressure drive pneumatic power drive
  • B23B 39/12 Radial drilling machines
  • B23B 39/14 with special provision to enable the machine or the drilling or boring head to be moved into any desired position, e.g. with respect to immovable work
  • B23B 39/26 in which the working position of tool or work is controlled by copying discrete points of a pattern (features of copying devices B23Q35/02)
  • B23B 39/28 Associations of only boring or drilling machines directed to a particular metal-working result (if not producing a particular metal-working result B23Q39/00)

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B23, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. ITW (ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS) US 3,642
  2. DISCO CORPORATION JP 3,316
  3. FANUC JP 3,111
  4. ROBERT BOSCH DE 2,711
  5. FANUC 2,163
  6. GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 2,113
  7. ISCAR IL 1,516
  8. SIEMENS DE 1,459
  9. LINCOLN GLOBAL US 1,433
  10. KOBE STEEL JP 1,423