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F41A 9/41

pushing unbelted ammunition from a box magazine on the gun frame into the cartridge chamber

Introduced: January 1990

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Feeding or loading of ammunition; Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges > Loading arrangements, i.e. for bringing the ammunition into the firing position > Ramming arrangements > the breech-block itself being the rammer > pushing unbelted ammunition from a box magazine on the gun frame into the cartridge chamber

CPC:

Feeding or loading of ammunition ( ; adaptations for feeding or loading missiles from magazines in air guns F41B11/50); Magazines; Guiding means for the extracting of cartridges (cartridge extractors or ejectors F41A15/00) > Loading arrangements, i.e. for bringing the ammunition into the firing position > Ramming arrangements > the breech-block itself being the rammer > pushing unbelted ammunition from a box magazine on the gun frame into the cartridge chamber

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Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class F41,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. NEXTER SYSTEMS FR 509
  2. AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT KR 461
  3. RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION DE 409
  4. BAE SYSTEMS GB 388
  5. CHONGQING JIANSHE INDUSTRY (GROUP) COMPANY 352
  6. AXON ENTERPRISE US 345
  7. LIG NEX1 COMPANY KR 323
  8. RAYTHEON COMPANY US 320
  9. KRAUSS-MAFFEI WEGMANN & COMPANY DE 263
  10. NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 228

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class F41,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. NEXTER SYSTEMS FR 562
  2. BAE SYSTEMS GB 459
  3. RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION DE 444
  4. RAYTHEON COMPANY US 412
  5. AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT KR 407
  6. AXON ENTERPRISE US 359
  7. LIG NEX1 COMPANY KR 290
  8. KRAUSS-MAFFEI WEGMANN & COMPANY DE 282
  9. SHELTERED WINGS, INC. D/B/A VORTEX OPTICS US 255
  10. THALES FR 228