TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N1/00)

Introduced: September 1968

Description

This subclass covers medical and assistive equipment designed for safe transport, mobility, and positioning of patients, disabled persons, and deceased individuals. It encompasses stretchers, gurneys, wheelchairs, patient lifts, operating tables, dental chairs, examination couches, and related mechanical or structural devices that facilitate medical procedures or improve accessibility. The classification includes both manual and powered conveyances, positioning mechanisms, and safety features integral to patient handling and accommodation in healthcare and domestic settings. Funeral equipment such as caskets and cremation devices are also included within this broad scope.

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES

CPC: TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N1/00)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES

CPC:

TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS (appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk A61H3/00); OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES (embalming corpses A01N1/00)

Additional Content IPC

Glossary

Disabled person disabled persons a human being that is unable to do a basic physical task (e.g., walking) due to a physical or mental impairment/condition. Funeral device Funeral devices apparatus associated with (e.g., coffin) or for performing (e.g., casket lowering device) activities connected with the burial, cremation, entombment, or other methods of honoring or disposing of (e.g., freeze drying) the remains of the body of a deceased individual. Patient patients a human being awaiting or undergoing any form of (a) medical care (e.g., testing) or treatment by medical staff (e.g., doctors, dentists, midwifes, chiropractors) or (b) physical tending (e.g., feeding) by caretakers (e.g., hospice or nursing home staff) due to impairment. Personal conveyance Personal conveyances a vehicle-like device (e.g., wheelchairs) that is: not specifically adapted for traveling significant distances (e.g., between cities) along thoroughfares (e.g., railways, roads, sidewalks) with normal traffic (e.g., trucks), explicitly designed (i.e., not merely adaptations of a standard production vehicle) for carrying, and intended to be limited to use by, a single patient or disabled person at any given time, and potentially capable of having either its movement controlled or powered by the patient or disabled person carried by it.

Limiting references

Devices per se for enabling disabled persons to operate an apparatus or device not forming part of the body Restraining devices for the body or for body parts and restraining shirts that are used for non-surgical treatment of patients' bones or joints Equipment for beds, treatment tables, floor frames or the like for extending or stretching Appliances for aiding invalids to walk about Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes For bicycles specially adapted for disabled riders Inclined lifts associated with stairways for transporting disabled persons or wheelchairs Illumination of operating tables , ,

Of 19 combined children, 14 exist in both systems.

5 codes are CPC-only extensions.

Note: 5 CPC extensions are marked as secondary classification only.

7 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

Child Classifications

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A61G 1/00 Stretchers IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 10/00 Treatment rooms for medical purposes (baby incubators, couveuses A61G11/00; devices for gas baths with ozone, hydrogen or the like A61H33/14 ; containers or portable cabins for affording breathing protection in general A62B31/00) since 1985 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 11/00 Baby-incubators; Couveuses +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 12/00 Accommodation for nursing, e.g. in hospitals, not covered by groups A61G1/00 - A61G11/00, e.g. trolleys for transport of medicaments or food ; Prescription lists +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 13/00 Operating tables; Auxiliary appliances therefor (illumination of operating tables F21L, F21S or F21V ) +5 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 15/00 Operating chairs; Dental chairs (barbers' chairs A47C1/04); Accessories specially adapted therefor, e.g. work stands +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 17/00 Coffins; Funeral wrappings; Funeral urns +3 CPC −1 IPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 19/00 Hoisting or lowering devices for coffins IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 21/00 Funeral aspects of hearses or like vehicles since 1990 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 2200/00 Information related to the kind of patient or his position 2nd only +3 CPC CPC only CPC only
A61G 2203/00 General characteristics of devices 2nd only +3 CPC CPC only CPC only
A61G 2205/00 General identification or selection means 2nd only +6 CPC CPC only CPC only
A61G 2210/00 Devices for specific treatment or diagnosis 2nd only +6 CPC CPC only CPC only
A61G 2220/00 Adaptations of particular transporting means 2nd only +6 CPC CPC only CPC only
A61G 3/00 Ambulance aspects of vehicles; Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances, e.g. for facilitating access of, or for loading, wheelchairs +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 5/00 Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs ( devices enabling patients or disabled persons to operate an apparatus or device not forming part of the body A61F4/00; bicycles specially adapted for disabled riders B62K3/16 ) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 7/00 Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons (stretchers with facilities for picking up patients or disabled persons A61G1/003) +3 CPC −1 IPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 9/00 Bed-pans, urinals or other sanitary devices for bed-ridden persons; Cleaning devices therefor, e.g. combined with toilet-urinals (urinals worn by the patient A61F5/44) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
A61G 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass since 2006 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC

Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class A61,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 18,523
NOVARTIS CH 14,253
COVIDIEN US 13,953
ROCHE CH 12,005
CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 11,955
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA US 11,692
HARVARD UNIVERSITY US 11,596
L'OREAL FR 11,593
P&G (PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY) US 11,297
OLYMPUS CORPORATION JP 9,594

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class A61,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NL 20,621
NOVARTIS CH 15,792
ROCHE CH 14,303
COVIDIEN US 13,862
HARVARD UNIVERSITY US 13,454
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA US 12,798
P&G (PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY) US 12,140
L'OREAL FR 11,800
OLYMPUS CORPORATION JP 9,894
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED US 9,513