CPC Subgroup
B41L 47/42 Printing mechanisms
Full Title
Details of addressographs or like series-printing machines (common details of printing machines B41F21/00 - B41F35/00) > Printing mechanisms
6 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B41L 47/44 using flat platens
- B41L 47/46 using line-contact members, e.g. rollers, cylinders
- B41L 47/48 with inking or ink-ribbon devices
- B41L 47/50 using multiple impression-members or -surfaces, e.g. for printing series of addresses with standing context, for printing from selected parts of printing surfaces (applications of counting, numbering, or dating apparatus B41L49/02)
- B41L 47/52 with movable counter-pressure plates for printing from selected areas of printing surfaces
- B41L 47/54 with means for automatically reciprocating printing plate transversely to enable addresses to be printed in columns side by side
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B41, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 8,446
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION JP 8,438
- HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 7,828
- CANON JP 5,419
- CANON 4,156
- BROTHER INDUSTRIES JP 3,763
- BROTHER INDUSTRIES 2,779
- RICOH COMPANY JP 2,717
- FUJIFILM JP 2,423
- RICOH COMPANY 1,739