IPC Subgroup
B29C 65/02 by heating, with or without pressure
Introduced: January 1985
Last revised: January 2006
Full Title
Joining of preformed parts; Apparatus therefor > by heating, with or without pressure
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- Subclass:
- SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
Related Keywords
WELDING of plastics or substances in a plastic state in general
10 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B29C 65/04 Dielectric heating, e.g. high-frequency welding
- B29C 65/06 using friction, e.g. spin welding
- B29C 65/08 using ultrasonic vibrations
- B29C 65/1 using hot gases
- B29C 65/14 using wave energy or particle radiation
- B29C 65/18 using heated tool
- B29C 65/34 using heated elements which remain in the joint, e.g. "verlorenes Schweisselement"
- B29C 65/38 Impulse heating
- B29C 65/4 Applying molten plastics, e.g. hot melt
- B29C 65/44 Joining a heated non-plastics element to a plastics element
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B29, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 3,802
- BOEING COMPANY US 3,087
- COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN FR 2,315
- SUMITOMO RUBBER IND 1,784
- GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 1,663
- CANON 1,658
- 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY) US 1,587
- TORAY INDUSTRIES JP 1,555
- BASF (BADISCHE ANILIN & SODA FABRIK) DE 1,470
- LG CHEM KR 1,415