IPC Main Group
B23K 101/00 Articles made by soldering, welding or cutting
Introduced: January 1990
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- Subclass:
- SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
13 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B23K 101/02 Honeycomb structures
- B23K 101/04 Tubular or hollow articles
- B23K 101/16 Bands or sheets of indefinite length
- B23K 101/18 Sheet panels
- B23K 101/2 Tools
- B23K 101/22 Nets, wire fabrics or the like
- B23K 101/24 Frameworks
- B23K 101/26 Railway- or like rails
- B23K 101/28 Beams
- B23K 101/3 Chains, hoops or rings
- B23K 101/32 Wires
- B23K 101/34 Coated articles
- B23K 101/36 Electric or electronic devices
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