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H01J 25/00

Transit-time tubes, e.g. klystrons, travelling-wave tubes, magnetrons (details of transit-time tubes H01J23/00; particle accelerators H05H)

Filing statistics

CPC H01J 25/00 belongs to the parent subclass H01J, which recorded 135,587 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 10,933 in 2013 to 11,751 in 2023 (+7%), peaking at 14,583 applications in 2021. The most active applicants in class H01 are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (37,897 applications), TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY (36,116 applications) and APPLIED MATERIALS (21,640 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

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  • H01J 25/61 Hybrid tubes, i.e. tubes comprising a klystron section and a travelling-wave section
  • H01J 25/62 Strophotrons, i.e. tubes with H-field crossing the E-field and functioning with plural reflection
  • H01J 25/64 Turbine tubes, i.e. tubes with H-field crossing the E-field and functioning with reversed cyclotron action
  • H01J 25/66 Tubes with electron stream crossing itself and thereby interacting or interfering with itself
  • H01J 25/74 Tubes specially designed to act as transit-time diode oscillators, e.g. monotrons
  • H01J 25/76 Dynamic electron-multiplier tubes, e.g. Farnsworth multiplier tube, multipactor
  • H01J 25/78 Tubes with electron stream modulated by deflection in a resonator

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class H01, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 37,897
  2. TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY TW 36,116
  3. APPLIED MATERIALS US 21,640
  4. LG ENERGY SOLUTION KR 20,770
  5. LG CHEM KR 19,835
  6. TOKYO ELECTRON JP 18,519
  7. ROBERT BOSCH DE 14,595
  8. INTEL CORPORATION US 13,580
  9. MURATA MANUFACTURING COMPANY JP 12,151
  10. SAMSUNG SDI COMPANY KR 12,080