G09B EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B)
Introduced: September 1968
Description
G09B encompasses devices and appliances designed for educational instruction, scientific demonstration, and specialized communication aids for persons with sensory disabilities. Coverage includes planetaria, globes, maps, diagrams, three-dimensional models, and interactive teaching apparatus across all subject disciplines. The subclass also covers tactile communication devices for the blind, visual or auditory aids for the deaf, and alternative communication systems for the mute. Excluded are general audiovisual equipment covered elsewhere in G09 and medical devices for rehabilitation or treatment.
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS
CPC: EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B)
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS
EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B)
Additional Content IPC
Simulators for teaching or training purposes . Simulating cosmonautic conditions, e.g. for conditioning crews Teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying Computer-based simulators - Analogue computers for flight simulators Education or teaching in general . Abacus Models . Dental articulators Models in the nature of toys, e.g. model railways Models of scenic effects, e.g. trees or rocks, for stage purposes
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 15 subcodes exist in both systems.
12 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
Child Classifications
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- G09B 1/00 Manually or mechanically operated educational appliances using elements forming, or bearing, symbols, signs, pictures, or the like which are arranged or adapted to be arranged in one or more particular ways (puzzle-games A63F9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G09B 17/00 Teaching reading (teaching lip-reading G09B21/00) +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass (teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26) +10 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G09B 21/00 Teaching, or communicating with, the blind, deaf or mute (audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04; devices or methods for replacing direct visual or auditory perception by another kind of perception A61F9/08, A61F11/04; audible indication of meter readings or of colour G01D7/12; watches for blind persons G04B25/02; speech analysis, speech recognition G10L; sound-recording or reproducing, per se G11B) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G09B 23/00 Models for scientific, medical, or mathematical purposes, e.g. full-sized devices for demonstration purposes (in the nature of toys A63H) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G09B 25/00 Models for purposes not provided for in G09B23/00, e.g. full-sized devices for demonstration purposes (model vehicles, tracks therefor, models in the nature of toys A63H) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G09B 29/00 Maps; Plans; Charts; Diagrams, e.g. route diagram (star maps G09B27/04; devices for holding or supporting maps A47B97/02; for computing purposes G06G1/14, G09B1/16; display boards G09F) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G09B 3/00 Manually or mechanically operated teaching appliances working with questions and answers (electrically-operated G09B7/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances (working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers (mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G09B 9/00 Simulators for teaching or training purposes (for the use of weapons F41; computing aspects G06; ) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class G09,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG DISPLAY KR 16,046
- BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY 13,766
- BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY CN 12,804
- LG DISPLAY COMPANY KR 10,322
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 7,738
- SAMSUNG DISPLAY 5,172
- SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY COMPANY 4,749
- SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY COMPANY JP 3,417
- LG DISPLAY COMPANY 3,335
- SONY CORPORATION JP 3,179
Top Applicants (CPC)
Class G09,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG DISPLAY KR 22,477
- BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY CN 16,016
- BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY 12,918
- LG DISPLAY COMPANY KR 12,599
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 12,009
- SAMSUNG DISPLAY 6,252
- SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY COMPANY JP 4,410
- SONY CORPORATION JP 3,965
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 3,901
- LG DISPLAY COMPANY 3,705