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C04B 2/10

Preheating, burning calcining or cooling (decarbonation during burning of cement raw materials C04B7/43; )

Introduced: January 1985

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: Preheating, burning, calcining or cooling

CPC: Preheating, burning calcining or cooling (decarbonation during burning of cement raw materials C04B7/43; )

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Lime, magnesia or dolomite > Preheating, burning, calcining or cooling

CPC:

Lime, magnesia or dolomite (hydraulic lime cements C04B7/34) > Preheating, burning calcining or cooling (decarbonation during burning of cement raw materials C04B7/43; )

CPC subdivides this area 5x more granularly than IPC with 4 additional codes.

4 codes are CPC-only extensions.

1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 1985.

Child Classifications

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  • C04B 2/102 CPC only CPC only
  • C04B 2/104 CPC only CPC only
  • C04B 2/106 CPC only CPC only
  • C04B 2/108 CPC only CPC only
  • C04B 2/12 in shaft or vertical furnaces (shaft or vertical furnaces in general F27B1/00) since 1985 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC

Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class C04,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2,095
  2. WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 1,205
  3. NGK INSULATORS JP 1,133
  4. HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES GROUP US 1,049
  5. SIKA TECHNOLOGY CH 1,041
  6. GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 807
  7. WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 806
  8. SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY 801
  9. CORNING US 777
  10. UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY US 739

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class C04,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES GROUP US 2,158
  2. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1,569
  3. NGK INSULATORS JP 1,504
  4. SIKA TECHNOLOGY CH 1,181
  5. CORNING US 974
  6. WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 926
  7. UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY US 882
  8. GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 828
  9. MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION JP 792
  10. SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY SA 686