IPC Subgroup
D03D 45/5 Cutting, holding, manipulating, or disposing of, weft ends
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Full Title
Looms with automatic weft replenishment > Cutting, holding, manipulating, or disposing of, weft ends
Classification Context
- Section:
- TEXTILES; PAPER
- Class:
- WEAVING
- Subclass:
- WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
5 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- D03D 45/52 Cutting weft of depleted shuttle near shuttle and holding the piece attached to the fabric
- D03D 45/54 Cutting fresh weft and holding the piece attached to the fabric
- D03D 45/56 Cutting depleted and fresh wefts at selvedge
- D03D 45/58 Removing tip bunch or fresh weft end from fresh bobbin
- D03D 45/62 Disposing of waste pieces of cut weft end
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class D03, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- TORAY INDUSTRIES JP 461
- TORAY INDUSTRIES 324
- SHANDONG RIFA TEXTILE MACHINERY COMPANY 279
- TOYOTA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION 260
- JIANGSU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY 259
- ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY 244
- PICANOL BE 213
- TOYOTA INDUSTRIES CORPORATION JP 192
- FEDERAL-MOGUL POWERTRAIN US 175
- NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY 171