Devices for holding or launching life-buoys, inflatable life-rafts, or other floatable life-saving equipment (equipment for handling life-boats or the like B63B23/00)

Introduced: September 1968

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: Devices for holding or launching life-buoys, inflatable life-rafts, or other floatable life-saving equipment

CPC: Devices for holding or launching life-buoys, inflatable life-rafts, or other floatable life-saving equipment (equipment for handling life-boats or the like B63B23/00)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Life-saving in water > Devices for holding or launching life-buoys, inflatable life-rafts, or other floatable life-saving equipment

CPC:

Life-saving in water (life-saving in general A62B; arrangement or adaptation of signalling or lighting devices for ships, other waterborne vessels or for equipment for shipping B63B45/00; rescue equipment specially adapted for submarine personnel B63G8/40) > Devices for holding or launching life-buoys, inflatable life-rafts, or other floatable life-saving equipment (equipment for handling life-boats or the like B63B23/00)

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 1 subcodes exist in both systems.

IPC defines codes here since 1990.

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B63C 9/23 Containers for inflatable life-saving equipment since 1990 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC

Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class B63,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

SAMSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES KR 5,719
DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING COMPANY KR 4,684
HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPANY KR 3,015
ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY 1,359
HUDONG-ZHONGHUA SHIPBUILDING (GROUP) COMPANY 1,221
HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY 1,175
SHANGHAI WAIGAOQIAO SHIPBUILDING COMPANY 1,129
CSSC HUANGPU WENCHONG SHIPBUILDING COMPANY 1,113
GUANGZHOU SHIPYARD INTERNATIONAL COMPANY 1,073
JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 963

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class B63,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

SAMSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES KR 4,830
DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING COMPANY KR 4,093
HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPANY KR 2,639
GAZ TRANSPORT ET TECHNIGAZ FR 1,037
SHANGHAI WAIGAOQIAO SHIPBUILDING COMPANY 827
HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY 811
GUANGZHOU SHIPYARD INTERNATIONAL COMPANY 808
HUDONG-ZHONGHUA SHIPBUILDING (GROUP) COMPANY 784
YAMAHA MOTOR COMPANY JP 731
THYSSEN KRUPP DE 727