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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 39/1 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 39/26 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

  1. ITW (ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS) US 3,407
  2. FANUC JP 3,120
  3. DISCO ABRASIVE SYSTEM 2,777
  4. HAN'S LASER TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY GROUP COMPANY 2,629
  5. ROBERT BOSCH DE 2,468
  6. FANUC 2,273
  7. DISCO CORPORATION JP 2,267
  8. GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 1,611
  9. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 1,534
  10. ISCAR IL 1,499