IPC Main Group
D01H 4/00 Open-end spinning machines or arrangements for imparting twist to independently moving fibres separated from slivers; Piecing arrangements therefor; Covering endless core threads with fibres by open-end spinning techniques
Introduced: January 1990
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- TEXTILES; PAPER
- Class:
- NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
- Subclass:
- SPINNING OR TWISTING
8 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- D01H 4/02 imparting twist by a fluid, e.g. air vortex
- D01H 4/04 imparting twist by contact of fibres with a running surface
- D01H 4/28 using electrostatic fields
- D01H 4/3 Arrangements for separating slivers into fibres; Orienting or straightening fibres
- D01H 4/38 Channels for feeding fibres to the yarn forming region
- D01H 4/4 Removing running yarn from the yarn forming region, e.g. using tubes
- D01H 4/42 Control of driving or stopping
- D01H 4/48 Piecing arrangements; Control therefor
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class D01, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY 1,242
- MASCHINENFABRIK RIETER CH 1,162
- TORAY INDUSTRIES JP 1,093
- TORAY INDUSTRIES 802
- JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY 771
- WUHAN TEXTILE UNIVERSITY 663
- SINOPEC (CHINA PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION) 653
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 559
- LENZING AT 525
- MURATA MACHINERY 492