IPC Subgroup
B41B 27/28 Control, indicating, or safety devices for individual operations or machine elements
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Full Title
Control, indicating, or safety devices or systems for composing machines of various kinds or types > Control, indicating, or safety devices for individual operations or machine elements
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- Subclass:
- MACHINES OR ACCESSORIES FOR MAKING, SETTING, OR DISTRIBUTING TYPE; TYPE; PHOTOGRAPHIC OR PHOTOELECTRONIC COMPOSING DEVICES
9 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B41B 27/3 for arresting or varying speed of one operation in response to failure or variation in speed of another operation
- B41B 27/32 for line-justification operations
- B41B 27/38 for measuring length of composed lines; for reading composed characters
- B41B 27/4 for proof-printing operations
- B41B 27/41 Printing mechanisms coupled to typographical composing machines
- B41B 27/42 for controlling selection of shifting of matrix magazines
- B41B 27/44 for controlling assembly of matrices and space bands
- B41B 27/48 for deleting errors or inserting corrections
- B41B 27/5 operated by coupled machines
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B41, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 14,672
- CANON 14,153
- RICOH COMPANY 8,049
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION JP 8,044
- HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 7,312
- BROTHER INDUSTRIES 6,887
- KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS 5,463
- CANON JP 5,001
- KONICA MINOLTA CORPORATION 4,512
- BROTHER INDUSTRIES JP 3,681