IPC Main Group
B23B 39/00 General-purpose boring or drilling machines or devices; Sets of boring or drilling machines
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- Subclass:
- TURNING; BORING
8 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B23B 39/02 Boring machines; Combined horizontal boring and milling machines
- B23B 39/04 Co-ordinate boring or drilling machines; Machines for making holes without previous marking
- B23B 39/1 characterised by the drive, e.g. by fluid-pressure drive, pneumatic power drive
- B23B 39/12 Radial drilling machines
- B23B 39/14 with special provision to enable the machine or the drilling or boring head to be moved into any desired position, e.g. with respect to immovable work
- B23B 39/16 Drilling machines with a plurality of working-spindles; Drilling automatons
- B23B 39/26 in which the working position of tool or work is controlled by copying discrete points of a pattern
- B23B 39/28 Associations of only boring or drilling machines directed to a particular metal-working result
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B23, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- ITW (ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS) US 3,407
- FANUC JP 3,120
- DISCO ABRASIVE SYSTEM 2,777
- HAN'S LASER TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY GROUP COMPANY 2,629
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 2,468
- FANUC 2,273
- DISCO CORPORATION JP 2,267
- GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 1,611
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1,534
- ISCAR IL 1,499