CPC Main Group
B24B 19/00 Single-purpose machines or devices for particular grinding operations not covered by any other main group (tapering, chamfering, or relief cutting of taps or reamers B24B3/20, B24B3/22, grinding screw threads B23G)
Filing statistics
CPC B24B 19/00 belongs to the parent subclass B24B, which recorded 132,872 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 5,708 in 2013 to 13,782 in 2023 (+141%), peaking at 18,119 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class B24 are DISCO CORPORATION (2,092 applications), APPLIED MATERIALS (1,813 applications) and EBARA CORPORATION (1,804 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
15 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B24B 19/02 for grinding grooves, e.g. on shafts, in casings, in tubes, homokinetic joint elements
- B24B 19/08 for grinding non-circular cross-sections, e.g. shafts of elliptical or polygonal cross-section
- B24B 19/14 for grinding turbine blades, propeller blades or the like (using grinding belts B24B21/16)
- B24B 19/16 for grinding sharp-pointed workpieces, e.g. needles, pens, fish hooks, tweezers or record player styli (grinding bevels on diamonds or sapphires B24B9/16; polishing of needles B24B29/08)
- B24B 19/20 for grinding dies (for grinding walls of very fine holes B24B5/48)
- B24B 19/22 characterised by a special design with respect to properties of the material of non-metallic articles to be ground
- B24B 19/26 for grinding workpieces with arcuate surfaces, e.g. parts of car bodies, bumpers or magnetic recording heads (grinding of spherical surfaces in general B24B11/00, of optical surfaces on lenses or surfaces of similar shape on other work B24B13/00)
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B24, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- DISCO CORPORATION JP 2,092
- APPLIED MATERIALS US 1,813
- EBARA CORPORATION JP 1,804
- 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY) US 1,329
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 863
- FUJIMI JP 858
- SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIVES US 833
- EBARA CORPORATION 810
- SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIVES FR 782
- DISCO ABRASIVE SYSTEM 735