B02C 17/16 Mills in which a fixed container houses stirring means tumbling the charge
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Full Title
Disintegrating by tumbling mills, i.e. mills having a container charged with the material to be disintegrated with or without special disintegrating members such as pebbles or balls > Mills in which a fixed container houses stirring means tumbling the charge
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
- Subclass:
- CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
Filing statistics
IPC B02C 17/16 belongs to the parent subclass B02C, which recorded 331,720 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 8,540 in 2013 to 45,161 in 2023 (+429%), peaking at 56,578 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class B02 are SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (503 applications), THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS (498 applications) and THYSSEN KRUPP (382 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B02, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SE 503
- THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS DE 498
- THYSSEN KRUPP DE 382
- ZHEJIANG ZHE KUANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPANY 239
- FLSMIDTH DK 239
- ZAOZHUANG SNKSAN INTELLIGENT MACHINERY COMPANY 230
- KMUST (KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) 202
- METSO MINERALS FI 195
- BUEHLER CH 189
- ISEKI & CO 186