CPC Main Group
D06M 11/00 Treating fibres, threads, yarns, fabrics or fibrous goods made from such materials, with inorganic substances or complexes thereof; Such treatment combined with mechanical treatment, e.g. mercerising (D06M10/00 takes precedence)
Filing statistics
CPC D06M 11/00 belongs to the parent subclass D06M, which recorded 58,384 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 2,831 in 2013 to 4,712 in 2023 (+66%), peaking at 7,298 applications in 2018. The most active applicants in class D06 are LG ELECTRONICS (7,955 applications), QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE COMPANY (7,190 applications) and HAIER SMART HOME (5,471 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
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Child Classifications
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- D06M 11/01 with hydrogen, water or heavy water; with hydrides of metals or complexes thereof; with boranes, diboranes, silanes, disilanes, phosphines, diphosphines, stibines, distibines, arsines, or diarsines or complexes thereof
- D06M 11/07 with halogens; with halogen acids or salts thereof; with oxides or oxyacids of halogens or salts thereof
- D06M 11/32 with oxygen, ozone, ozonides, oxides, hydroxides or percompounds; Salts derived from anions with an amphoteric element-oxygen bond (with water or heavy water D06M11/05; with oxides or oxyacids of halogens D06M11/30)
- D06M 11/51 with sulfur, selenium, tellurium, polonium or compounds thereof (with persulfuric acids or their salts D06M11/50)
- D06M 11/58 with nitrogen or compounds thereof, e.g. with nitrides (with ammonium halides D06M11/13)
- D06M 11/68 with phosphorus or compounds thereof, e.g. with chlorophosphonic acid or salts thereof (with phosphines or diphosphines D06M11/01; with selenium or tellurium compounds D06M11/52; with polyphosphazene or derivatives thereof D06M15/673)
- D06M 11/73 with carbon or compounds thereof (D06M11/67 takes precedence)
- D06M 11/77 with silicon or compounds thereof (with silanes or disilanes D06M11/01)
- D06M 11/80 with boron or compounds thereof, e.g. borides (with boranes or diboranes D06M11/01; with boron carbides D06M11/74)
- D06M 11/83 with metals; with metal-generating compounds, e.g. metal carbonyls; Reduction of metal compounds on textiles
- D06M 11/84 combined with mechanical treatment (combined with mechanical tension, e.g. mercerising D06M11/40)
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class D06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 7,955
- QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE COMPANY 7,190
- HAIER SMART HOME 5,471
- QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE COMPANY CN 2,962
- BSH (BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE) DE 2,870
- WUXI LITTLE SWAN COMPANY 2,869
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 2,731
- MIELE DE 1,371
- WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION US 1,285
- ELECTROLUX APPLIANCES SE 1,261