IPC Subgroup
B41M 5/26 Thermography
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Full Title
Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein > Thermography
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- Subclass:
- PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
Related Keywords
THERMOGRAPHY
7 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B41M 5/28 using thermo-chromic compounds or layers containing liquid crystals, microcapsules, bleachable dyes or heat decomposable compounds, e.g. gas liberating
- B41M 5/3 using chemical colour formers
- B41M 5/34 Multicolour thermography
- B41M 5/36 using a polymeric layer, which may be particulate and which is deformed or structurally changed with modification of its properties, e.g. of its optical, hydrophobic-hydrophilic, solubility or permeability properties
- B41M 5/382 Contact transfer or sublimation processes
- B41M 5/398 Processes based on the production of stickiness patterns using powders
- B41M 5/4 characterised by the base, intermediate or covering layers; Heat, radiation filtering or absorbing means or layers; combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registration; Special originals for reproduction by thermography
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