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F41A 17/00

Safety arrangements, e.g. safeties

Introduced: January 1990

Last revised: January 2006

Classification Context

Section:
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Class:
WEAPONS
Subclass:
FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS COMMON TO BOTH SMALLARMS AND ORDNANCE, e.g. CANNONS; MOUNTINGS FOR SMALLARMS OR ORDNANCE

17 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • F41A 17/02 Key-operated safeties
  • F41A 17/04 Safeties of the combination-lock type
  • F41A 17/06 Electric or electromechanical safeties
  • F41A 17/14 Double-loading prevention
  • F41A 17/16 Cook-off prevention, i.e. prevention of spontaneous firing of a cartridge by chamber wall heat
  • F41A 17/18 Hang-fire prevention
  • F41A 17/4 Last-round safeties
  • F41A 17/42 Safeties for locking the breech-block or bolt in a safety position
  • F41A 17/44 Safety plugs, e.g. for plugging-up cartridge chambers

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class F41, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. NEXTER SYSTEMS FR 509
  2. AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT KR 461
  3. RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION DE 409
  4. BAE SYSTEMS GB 388
  5. CHONGQING JIANSHE INDUSTRY (GROUP) COMPANY 352
  6. AXON ENTERPRISE US 345
  7. LIG NEX1 COMPANY KR 323
  8. RAYTHEON COMPANY US 320
  9. KRAUSS-MAFFEI WEGMANN & COMPANY DE 263
  10. NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 228