IPC Main Group
B65H 20/00 Advancing webs
Introduced: January 1985
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- Subclass:
- HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
Filing statistics
IPC B65H 20/00 belongs to the parent subclass B65H, which recorded 387,782 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 15,473 in 2013 to 53,694 in 2023 (+247%), peaking at 56,827 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class B65 are CANON (3,755 applications), SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) (3,721 applications) and YOSHINO KOGYOSHO COMPANY (3,659 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
Related Keywords
advancing WEB(S)
12 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B65H 20/02 by friction roller
- B65H 20/06 by friction band
- B65H 20/1 by a feed band against which web is held by fluid pressure, e.g. suction or air blast
- B65H 20/12 by suction roller
- B65H 20/14 by direct action on web of moving fluid
- B65H 20/16 by web-gripping means, e.g. grippers, clips
- B65H 20/2 by web-penetrating means, e.g. pins
- B65H 20/24 by looping or like devices
- B65H 20/26 Mechanisms for advancing webs to or from the inside of web rolls
- B65H 20/28 Mechanisms for delivering webs in superposed folds and refeeding them from the lower end of the folded assemblies
- B65H 20/3 Arrangements for accumulating surplus web
- B65H 20/36 having means to optionally advance the web either in one longitudinal direction or in the opposite longitudinal direction
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B65, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- CANON 3,755
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 3,721
- YOSHINO KOGYOSHO COMPANY 3,659
- DNP (DAINIPPON PRINTING COMPANY) 3,573
- KRONES DE 3,114
- P&G (PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY) US 2,777
- TOPPAN PRINTING COMPANY 2,720
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 2,574
- KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS 2,371
- RICOH COMPANY 2,349