C02F 5/00 Softening water; Preventing scale; Adding scale preventatives or scale removers to water, e.g. adding sequestering agents (softening using ion-exchange C02F1/42)
Introduced: January 1980
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: Softening water; Preventing scale; Adding scale preventatives or scale removers to water, e.g. adding sequestering agents
CPC: Softening water; Preventing scale; Adding scale preventatives or scale removers to water, e.g. adding sequestering agents (softening using ion-exchange C02F1/42)
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
Softening water; Preventing scale; Adding scale preventatives or scale removers to water, e.g. adding sequestering agents
Softening water; Preventing scale; Adding scale preventatives or scale removers to water, e.g. adding sequestering agents (softening using ion-exchange C02F1/42)
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 2 subcodes exist in both systems.
IPC defines codes here since 1980.
Child Classifications
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- C02F 5/02 Softening water by precipitation of the hardness since 1980 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- C02F 5/08 Treatment of water with complexing chemicals or other solubilising agents for softening, scale prevention or scale removal, e.g. adding sequestering agents since 1980 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class C02,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 3,734
- SINOPEC (CHINA PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION) 2,761
- MIDEA 1,938
- TONGJI UNIVERSITY 1,433
- HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1,380
- HOHAI UNIVERSITY 1,367
- BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 1,317
- CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY 1,248
- ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY 1,229
- SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 1,203
Top Applicants (CPC)
Class C02,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2,531
- SINOPEC (CHINA PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION) 1,700
- KURITA WATER IND JP 1,287
- TONGJI UNIVERSITY 1,040
- CHANGZHOU UNIVERSITY 928
- ECOLAB US 904
- HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 904
- BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 878
- HOHAI UNIVERSITY 862
- EVOQUA WATER TECHNOLOGIES US 842