B60K ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- Subclass:
- ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
Description
B60K covers the physical arrangement, mounting, and integration of propulsion systems and auxiliary components within vehicles. This includes positioning and structural support of engines, transmissions, and hybrid/multi-fuel power systems, as well as instrumentation, dashboards, and subsystems for cooling, air intake, exhaust, and fuel delivery. The classification encompasses mechanical engineering solutions for vehicle powertrain layout and vehicle-level integration of propulsion units, but excludes the internal design of engines, transmissions, and fuel systems themselves, which fall under separate classes.
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19 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B60K 1/00 Arrangement or mounting of electrical propulsion units
- B60K 11/00 Arrangement in connection with cooling of propulsion units
- B60K 13/00 Arrangement in connection with combustion air intake or gas exhaust of propulsion units
- B60K 15/00 Arrangement in connection with fuel supply of combustion engines; Mounting or construction of fuel tanks
- B60K 16/00 Arrangements in connection with power supply of propulsion units in vehicles from forces of nature, e.g. sun or wind
- B60K 17/00 Arrangement or mounting of transmissions in vehicles
- B60K 20/00 Arrangement or mounting of change-speed gearing control devices in vehicles
- B60K 23/00 Arrangement or mounting of control devices for vehicle transmissions, or parts thereof, not otherwise provided for
- B60K 25/00 Auxiliary drives
- B60K 26/00 Arrangement or mounting of propulsion-unit control devices in vehicles
- B60K 28/00 Safety devices for propulsion-unit control, specially adapted for, or arranged in, vehicles, e.g. preventing fuel supply or ignition in the event of potentially dangerous conditions
- B60K 3/00 Arrangement or mounting of steam or gaseous-pressure propulsion units
- B60K 31/00 Vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed, i.e. preventing speed from exceeding an arbitrarily established velocity or maintaining speed at a particular velocity, as selected by the vehicle operator
- B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
- B60K 37/00 Dashboards
- B60K 5/00 Arrangement or mounting of internal-combustion or jet-propulsion units
- B60K 6/00 Arrangement or mounting of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion, e.g. hybrid propulsion systems comprising electric motors and internal combustion engines
- B60K 7/00 Disposition of motor in, or adjacent to, traction wheel
- B60K 8/00 Arrangement or mounting of propulsion units not provided for in one of main groups
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B60, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 28,052
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY KR 27,773
- FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES US 26,243
- KIA MOTORS CORPORATION KR 20,110
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 19,033
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION JP 17,924
- BMW (BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE) DE 14,214
- HONDA MOTOR COMPANY 12,527
- AUDI DE 10,806
- GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS US 10,336