IPC Main Group
B66B 29/00 Safety devices of escalators or moving walkways
Introduced: January 1985
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
- Subclass:
- ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
Additional Content
Moving walkways of variable speed type Balustrades handrails of variable speed type
2 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B66B 29/02 responsive to, or preventing, jamming by foreign objects
- B66B 29/08 Means to facilitate passenger entry or exit
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B66, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- INVENTIO CH 3,843
- OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY US 3,709
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 2,987
- KONE CORPORATION FI 2,922
- TOSHIBA ELEVATOR COMPANY 2,922
- HITACHI 2,321
- MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION JP 2,287
- MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION 1,870
- HITACHI BUILDING SYSTEMS COMPANY 1,700
- ANHUI HELI COMPANY 1,325