G10D STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (organs, harmoniums or similar wind musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus G10B; pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards G10C; automatic musical instruments G10F; electrophonic musical instruments in which tones are generated by electromechanical means G10H)
Introduced: September 1968
Description
G10D covers mechanical and structural designs for acoustic and traditional musical instruments, including stringed instruments (guitars, violins, pianos), wind instruments (flutes, saxophones, trumpets), reed instruments (accordions, concertinas), and percussion instruments (drums, bells, xylophones). This classification encompasses construction methods, sound-producing mechanisms, tuning devices, playing mechanisms, and material innovations specific to these instrument types. Inventions addressing acoustic properties, resonance chambers, vibration control, and traditional instrument modifications are included, while electronic sound generation and amplification systems are typically classified elsewhere under G10H.
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
CPC: STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (organs, harmoniums or similar wind musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus G10B; pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards G10C; automatic musical instruments G10F; electrophonic musical instruments in which tones are generated by electromechanical means G10H)
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (organs, harmoniums or similar wind musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus G10B; pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards G10C; automatic musical instruments G10F; electrophonic musical instruments in which tones are generated by electromechanical means G10H)
Additional Content IPC
Glossary
Air-reed wind instrument Air-reed wind instruments Air-reed wind Air-reed In this subclass, the term “air-reed wind instrument” refers to a wind musical instrument which is of the type wherein an air current is directed against a ramp edge. Wind (musical) instrument wind musical instrument wind musical instruments Wind instrument Wind instruments A musical instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of air, typically by the player blowing into the instrument. Zither Zithers In this subclass, the term “zither” refers to a stringed musical instrument with a resonator and without a neck, whose strings are stretched parallel to a surface of the resonator, and played manually.
Limiting references
Organs, harmoniums or like musical instruments with associated blowing apparatus Pianos, harpsichords, spinets or similar stringed musical instruments with one or more keyboards Automatic musical instruments Automatic percussion musical instruments Automatic wind musical instruments Automatic stringed musical instruments other than pianofortes Electrophonic musical instruments in which tones are generated by electromechanical means Whistles
IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 9 subcodes exist in both systems.
3 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
Child Classifications
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- G10D 13/00 Percussion musical instruments; Details or accessories therefor (struck string instruments G10D1/14) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G10D 3/00 Details of, or accessories for, stringed musical instruments, e.g. slide-bars IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G10D 7/00 General design of wind musical instruments (accordions or concertinas G10D11/00; whistles G10K5/00) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G10D 9/00 Details of, or accessories for, wind musical instruments (accordions or concertinas G10D11/00) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G10D 99/00 Musical instruments not otherwise provided for since 2020 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class G10,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 5,218
- GOOGLE US 4,644
- FRAUNHOFER DE 4,601
- SONY CORPORATION JP 2,380
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 2,179
- YAMAHA CORPORATION 2,120
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 1,974
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 1,916
- AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES US 1,866
- DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION US 1,843
Top Applicants (CPC)
Class G10,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 6,277
- GOOGLE US 5,429
- FRAUNHOFER DE 4,984
- SONY CORPORATION JP 2,808
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 2,577
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 2,382
- DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION US 2,123
- QUALCOMM US 2,117
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 2,049
- AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES US 1,924