IPC Main Group
D04B 15/00 Details of, or auxiliary devices incorporated in, weft knitting machines, restricted to machines of this kind
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- TEXTILES; PAPER
- Class:
- BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
- Subclass:
- KNITTING
16 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- D04B 15/02 Loop-transfer points
- D04B 15/06 Sinkers
- D04B 15/08 Needle latch openers; Brushes
- D04B 15/1 Needle beds
- D04B 15/14 Needle cylinders
- D04B 15/18 Dials
- D04B 15/2 Needle bars
- D04B 15/24 Sinker heads; Sinker bars
- D04B 15/26 Slurcocks
- D04B 15/28 Needle pressers
- D04B 15/3 Driving devices for thread-carrier rods
- D04B 15/32 Cam systems or assemblies for operating knitting instruments
- D04B 15/38 Devices for supplying, feeding, or guiding threads to needles
- D04B 15/66 Devices for determining or controlling patterns
- D04B 15/88 Take-up or draw-off devices for knitting products
- D04B 15/94 Driving-gear not otherwise provided for
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class D04, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- P&G (PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY) US 887
- KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION US 727
- TORAY INDUSTRIES JP 692
- NIKE US 633
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 537
- TORAY INDUSTRIES 528
- NIKE INNOVATE US 522
- 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY) US 479
- NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY 439
- NINGBO CIXING COMPANY 425