CPC Main Group
B23B 39/00 General-purpose boring or drilling machines or devices; Sets of boring and/or drilling machines
Filing statistics
CPC B23B 39/00 belongs to the parent subclass B23B, which recorded 66,933 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings declined from 4,756 in 2013 to 4,707 in 2023 (-1%), peaking at 7,816 applications in 2018. The most active applicants in class B23 are ITW (ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS) (3,642 applications), DISCO CORPORATION (3,316 applications) and FANUC (3,111 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
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Child Classifications
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- B23B 39/02 Boring machines; Combined horizontal boring and milling machines
- B23B 39/04 Co-ordinate boring or drilling machines; Machines for making holes without previous marking
- 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 39/16 Drilling machines with a plurality of working-spindles; Drilling automatons
- 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
- ITW (ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS) US 3,642
- DISCO CORPORATION JP 3,316
- FANUC JP 3,111
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 2,711
- FANUC 2,163
- GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 2,113
- ISCAR IL 1,516
- SIEMENS DE 1,459
- LINCOLN GLOBAL US 1,433
- KOBE STEEL JP 1,423