Positioning or observing the workpiece, e.g. with respect to the point of impact; Aligning, aiming or focusing the laser beam

Introduced: January 1980

Full Title

Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring > Positioning or observing the workpiece, e.g. with respect to the point of impact; Aligning, aiming or focusing the laser beam

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 4 subcodes exist in both systems.

1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 1980.

Child Classifications

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B23K 26/03 Observing, e.g. monitoring, the workpiece since 2000 +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23K 26/035 Aligning the laser beam (automatically B23K26/042) since 2014 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23K 26/04 Automatically aligning, aiming or focusing the laser beam, e.g. using the back-scattered light since 1980 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
B23K 26/06 Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing since 1980 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC