IPC Main Group
F16H 61/00 Control functions within change-speed- or reversing-gearings for conveying rotary motion
Introduced: January 1990
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- Class:
- ENGINEERING ELEMENTS OR UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- Subclass:
- GEARING
Additional Content
Varying the speed ratio of driving or feeding mechanisms of machine tools , Conjoint control of drive units for vehicles Cycle transmissions Marine propulsion
16 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- F16H 61/02 characterised by the signals used
- F16H 61/04 Smoothing ratio shift
- F16H 61/1 Controlling shift hysteresis
- F16H 61/12 Detecting malfunction or potential malfunction, e.g. fail safe
- F16H 61/14 Control of torque converter lock-up clutches
- F16H 61/16 Inhibiting shift during unfavourable conditions
- F16H 61/18 Preventing unintentional or unsafe shift
- F16H 61/2 Preventing gear creeping
- F16H 61/21 Providing engine brake control
- F16H 61/22 Locking
- F16H 61/24 Providing feel, e.g. to enable selection
- F16H 61/26 Generation or transmission of movements for final actuating mechanisms
- F16H 61/38 Control of exclusively fluid gearing
- F16H 61/66 specially adapted for continuously variable gearings
- F16H 61/68 specially adapted for stepped gearings
- F16H 61/7 specially adapted for change-speed gearing in group arrangement, i.e. with separate change-speed gear trains arranged in series, e.g. range or overdrive-type gearing arrangements
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class F16, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES & COMPANY DE 21,545
- ZAHNRADFABRIK FRIEDRICHSHAFEN DE 9,446
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 7,215
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY KR 6,846
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 6,106
- NTN CORPORATION 5,305
- SKF SE 4,219
- KIA MOTORS CORPORATION KR 3,852
- NSK 3,850
- HONDA MOTOR COMPANY 3,639