IPC Main Group
B05B 12/00 Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area
Introduced: July 1974
Last revised: January 2018
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
- Subclass:
- SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
4 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B05B 12/02 for controlling time, or sequence, of delivery
- B05B 12/08 responsive to condition of liquid or other fluent material discharged, of ambient medium or of target
- B05B 12/14 for supplying a selected one of a plurality of liquids or other fluent materials to a single spray outlet
- B05B 12/16 for controlling the spray area
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B05, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- DUERR SYSTEMS DE 1,073
- 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY) US 941
- TOKYO ELECTRON JP 825
- YOSHINO KOGYOSHO COMPANY 780
- APTAR FRANCE FR 723
- NORDSON CORPORATION US 704
- LG ENERGY SOLUTION KR 606
- GRACO MINNESOTA US 604
- SCREEN HOLDINGS JP 592
- BOEING COMPANY US 516