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H01M 50/20

Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders (structural combination of accumulators with charging apparatus H01M10/46)

Introduced: January 2021

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders

CPC: Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders (structural combination of accumulators with charging apparatus H01M10/46)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts of electrochemical cells other than fuel cells, e.g. hybrid cells > Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders

CPC:

Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the non-active parts of electrochemical cells other than fuel cells, e.g. hybrid cells > Mountings; Secondary casings or frames; Racks, modules or packs; Suspension devices; Shock absorbers; Transport or carrying devices; Holders (structural combination of accumulators with charging apparatus H01M10/46)

Additional Content IPC

Limiting references

Structural combination of accumulators with charging apparatus

Application references

Electrically operated smoking devices; Component parts thereof; Manufacture thereof; Maintenance or testing thereof; Charging means specially adapted therefor Electrotherapy, e.g. implantable medical devices Tools for drilling machines Portable power-driven tools Arrangement of batteries specially adapted for vehicles Adaptation of battery structures of electric vehicles, e.g. integration into control or safety systems, crash-resistant casings or vibration-damping means Exchange of the energy storage elements for electric vehicles Supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 19 subcodes exist in both systems.

4 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 2021.

Child Classifications

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  • H01M 50/202 Casings or frames around the primary casing of a single cell or a single battery since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H01M 50/244 Secondary casings; Racks; Suspension devices; Carrying devices; Holders characterised by their mounting method since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H01M 50/247 specially adapted for portable devices, e.g. mobile phones, computers, hand tools or pacemakers since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H01M 50/249 specially adapted for aircraft or vehicles, e.g. cars or trains (constructional details of batteries specially adapted for electric vehicles B60L50/64) since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H01M 50/251 specially adapted for stationary devices, e.g. power plant buffering or backup power supplies since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H01M 50/253 adapted for specific cells, e.g. electrochemical cells operating at high temperature since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H01M 50/256 Carrying devices, e.g. belts since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H01M 50/267 having means for adapting to batteries or cells of different types or different sizes since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H01M 50/269 Mechanical means for varying the arrangement of batteries or cells for different uses, e.g. for changing the number of batteries or for switching between series and parallel wiring (methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance H01M6/50, H01M10/42) since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H01M 50/296 characterised by terminals of battery packs (terminals of batteries H01M50/543) since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • H01M 50/298 characterised by the wiring of battery packs since 2021 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC

Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class H01,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY TW 43,574
  2. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 42,206
  3. LG CHEM KR 21,383
  4. APPLIED MATERIALS US 20,441
  5. LG ENERGY SOLUTION KR 20,279
  6. SAMSUNG DISPLAY KR 19,725
  7. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 19,400
  8. TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 18,819
  9. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 18,082
  10. TOKYO ELECTRON JP 17,634

Top Applicants (CPC)

Class H01,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 37,897
  2. TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY TW 36,116
  3. APPLIED MATERIALS US 21,640
  4. LG ENERGY SOLUTION KR 20,770
  5. LG CHEM KR 19,835
  6. TOKYO ELECTRON JP 18,519
  7. ROBERT BOSCH DE 14,595
  8. INTEL CORPORATION US 13,580
  9. MURATA MANUFACTURING COMPANY JP 12,151
  10. SAMSUNG SDI COMPANY KR 12,080