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IPC Subgroup
B41L 47/14

Devices or arrangements for storing or handling plates

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 2006

Full Title

Details of addressing machines or like series-printing machines > Devices or arrangements for storing or handling plates

Classification Context

Section:
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Class:
PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
Subclass:
APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR MANIFOLDING, DUPLICATING OR PRINTING FOR OFFICE OR OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSES; ADDRESSING MACHINES OR LIKE SERIES-PRINTING MACHINES

4 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • B41L 47/16 Magazines
  • B41L 47/18 Devices for feeding the plates in their plane
  • B41L 47/2 Devices for feeding the plates otherwise than in their plane, e.g. transversely thereto
  • B41L 47/22 with means for presenting plates for repeated printing operations

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B41, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 14,672
  2. CANON 14,153
  3. RICOH COMPANY 8,049
  4. SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION JP 8,044
  5. HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 7,312
  6. BROTHER INDUSTRIES 6,887
  7. KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS 5,463
  8. CANON JP 5,001
  9. KONICA MINOLTA CORPORATION 4,512
  10. BROTHER INDUSTRIES JP 3,681