B23Q 15/013 Control or regulation of feed movement
Introduced: January 1980
Last revised: January 2006
Full Title
Automatic control or regulation of feed movement, cutting velocity or position of tool or work > while the tool acts upon the workpiece > Control or regulation of feed movement
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- Subclass:
- DETAILS, COMPONENTS, OR ACCESSORIES FOR MACHINE TOOLS, e.g. ARRANGEMENTS FOR COPYING OR CONTROLLING; MACHINE TOOLS IN GENERAL, CHARACTERISED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF PARTICULAR DETAILS OR COMPONENTS; COMBINATIONS OR ASSOCIATIONS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINES, NOT DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR RESULT
Filing statistics
IPC B23Q 15/013 belongs to the parent subclass B23Q, which recorded 452,253 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 17,043 in 2013 to 61,015 in 2023 (+258%), peaking at 66,831 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class B23 are ITW (ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS) (3,407 applications), FANUC (3,120 applications) and DISCO ABRASIVE SYSTEM (2,777 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
3 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B23Q 15/02 according to the instantaneous size and the required size of the workpiece acted upon
- B23Q 15/04 according to the final size of the previously machined workpiece
- B23Q 15/06 according to measuring results produced by two or more gauging methods using different measuring principles, e.g. by both optical and mechanical gauging
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