CPC Main Group
F02M 1/00 Carburettors with means for facilitating engine's starting or its idling below operational temperatures
Filing statistics
CPC F02M 1/00 belongs to the parent subclass F02M, which recorded 90,596 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings declined from 9,516 in 2013 to 4,038 in 2023 (-58%), peaking at 11,410 applications in 2016. The most active applicants in class F02 are ROBERT BOSCH (8,801 applications), FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES (8,171 applications) and GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) (6,957 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
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Child Classifications
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- F02M 1/02 the means to facilitate starting or idling being chokes for enriching fuel-air mixture (automatic chokes F02M1/08)
- F02M 1/04 the means to facilitate starting or idling being auxiliary carburetting apparatus able to be put into, and out of, operation, e.g. having automatically-operated disc valves
- F02M 1/08 the means to facilitate starting or idling becoming operative or inoperative automatically (in connection with auxiliary carburetting apparatus F02M1/04)
- F02M 1/16 Other means for enriching fuel-air mixture during starting; Priming cups; using different fuels for starting and normal operation
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class F02, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 8,801
- FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES US 8,171
- GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 6,957
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY KR 5,390
- UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (UTC) US 5,250
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION JP 5,214
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 4,149
- DENSO CORPORATION JP 3,400
- KIA MOTORS CORPORATION KR 3,388
- SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES FR 3,332