IPC Main Group
B41M 5/00 Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- Subclass:
- PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
Related Keywords
methods of DUPLICATING documents or drawingsgeneral graphic MARKING -methodsPRESSURE -sensitive transfer sheets
7 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B41M 5/025 by transferring ink from the master sheet
- B41M 5/1 by using carbon paper or the like
- B41M 5/124 using pressure to make a masked colour visible, e.g. to make a coloured support visible, to create an opaque or transparent pattern, or to form colour by uniting colour-forming components
- B41M 5/2 using electric current
- B41M 5/24 Ablative recording, e.g. by burning marks; Spark recording
- B41M 5/26 Thermography
- B41M 5/5 Recording sheets characterised by the coating used to improve ink, dye or pigment receptivity, e.g. for ink-jet or thermal dye transfer recording
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