F24C DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES (exclusively for solid fuels F24B); DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Introduced: September 1968
Description
F24C covers cooking appliances designed for residential use, including conventional stoves, ranges, and ovens for food preparation. The classification encompasses both complete cooking units and individual components (such as burners, heating elements, grates, and thermostatic controls) that have general applicability across different stove types. This subclass includes electric, gas, and solid-fuel cooking appliances, as well as hybrid designs, but excludes specialized commercial kitchen equipment and industrial furnaces which are covered elsewhere in the F24 branch.
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
CPC: DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES (exclusively for solid fuels F24B); DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES; DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES (exclusively for solid fuels F24B); DETAILS OF DOMESTIC STOVES OR RANGES, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Additional Content IPC
Limiting references
Domestic stoves or ranges exclusively for solid fuels
Application references
Protecting plants by heating in gardens, orchards or forests
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 9 subcodes exist in both systems.
5 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
Child Classifications
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- F24C 1/00 Stoves or ranges in which the fuel or energy supply is not restricted to solid fuel or to a type covered by a single one of the following groups F24C3/00 - F24C9/00; Stoves or ranges in which the type of fuel or energy supply is not specified IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- F24C 11/00 Combinations of two or more stoves or ranges, e.g. each having a different kind of energy supply IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- F24C 13/00 Stoves or ranges with additional provisions for heating water IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- F24C 14/00 Stoves or ranges having self-cleaning provisions, e.g. continuous catalytic cleaning or electrostatic cleaning since 1980 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- F24C 3/00 Stoves or ranges for gaseous fuels (stoves or ranges specially adapted for the use of two or more kinds of fuel or energy supply F24C1/02) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- F24C 5/00 Stoves or ranges for liquid fuels (stoves or ranges specially adapted for the use of two or more kinds of fuel or energy supply F24C1/02) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- F24C 7/00 Stoves or ranges heated by electric energy (stoves or ranges specially adapted for the use of two or more kinds of fuel or energy supply F24C1/02) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- F24C 9/00 Stoves or ranges heated by a single type of energy supply not covered by groups F24C3/00 - F24C7/00 or subclass F24B (solar heat collectors for heating objects, e.g. solar cookers F24S20/30) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class F24,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- MIDEA 21,834
- GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES 21,535
- GUANGDONG MIDEA REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT COMPANY 20,870
- QINGDAO HAIER AIR CONDITIONER COMPANY 15,443
- HAIER SMART HOME 15,442
- QINGDAO HAIER AIR CONDITIONER ELECTRIC COMPANY 10,008
- AUX AIR CONDITIONING COMPANY 7,723
- NINGBO AUX ELECTRIC COMPANY 7,499
- NINGBO FOTILE KITCHENWARE COMPANY 6,712
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 6,441
Top Applicants (CPC)
Class F24,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES 11,167
- QINGDAO HAIER AIR CONDITIONER COMPANY 9,225
- HAIER SMART HOME 8,998
- MIDEA 8,874
- GUANGDONG MIDEA REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT COMPANY 8,724
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 7,258
- MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION JP 7,009
- QINGDAO HAIER AIR CONDITIONER ELECTRIC COMPANY 6,104
- BSH (BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE) DE 3,544
- NINGBO AUX ELECTRIC COMPANY 3,302