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B60K 2360/00 Indexing scheme associated with groups B60K35/00 or B60K37/00 relating to details of instruments or dashboards
Filing statistics
CPC B60K 2360/00 belongs to the parent subclass B60K, which recorded 221,611 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 13,600 in 2013 to 19,181 in 2023 (+41%), peaking at 24,034 applications in 2018. The most active applicants in class B60 are HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (31,729 applications), FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES (29,270 applications) and KIA MOTORS CORPORATION (23,892 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
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Child Classifications
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- B60K 2360/11 Instrument graphical user interfaces or menu aspects
- B60K 2360/122 Instrument input devices with reconfigurable control functions, e.g. reconfigurable menus
- B60K 2360/126 Rotatable input devices for instruments
- B60K 2360/128 Axially displaceable input devices for instruments
- B60K 2360/131 Pivotable input devices for instruments
- B60K 2360/133 Multidirectional input devices for instruments
- B60K 2360/139 Clusters of instrument input devices
- B60K 2360/141 Activation of instrument input devices by approaching fingers or pens
- B60K 2360/143 Touch sensitive instrument input devices
- B60K 2360/145 Instrument input by combination of touch screen and hardware input devices
- B60K 2360/146 Instrument input by gesture
- B60K 2360/148 Instrument input by voice
- B60K 2360/149 Instrument input by detecting viewing direction not otherwise provided for
- B60K 2360/151 Instrument output devices for configurable output
- B60K 2360/1523 Matrix displays
- B60K 2360/1526 Dual-view displays
- B60K 2360/16 Type of output information
- B60K 2360/18 Information management
- B60K 2360/20 Optical features of instruments
- B60K 2360/40 Hardware adaptations for dashboards or instruments
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B60, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY KR 31,729
- FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES US 29,270
- KIA MOTORS CORPORATION KR 23,892
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 20,384
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION JP 20,311
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 20,237
- BMW (BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE) DE 14,629
- GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS US 11,896
- AUDI DE 11,084
- HONDA MOTOR COMPANY 10,940