IPC Main Group
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 17/08 for inhibiting firing in a specified direction, e.g. at a friendly person or at a protected area
- 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 17/2 Grip or stock safeties, i.e. safeties disengaged by clasping the grip or stock
- F41A 17/3 Multiple safeties, i.e. safeties acting on at least one element of the firing mechanism and at least one other element of the gun, e.g. the moving barrel
- F41A 17/34 Magazine safeties
- 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
- F41A 17/46 Trigger safeties, i.e. means for preventing trigger movement
- F41A 17/56 Sear safeties, i.e. means for rendering ineffective an intermediate lever transmitting trigger movement to firing pin, hammer, bolt or sear
- F41A 17/64 Firing-pin safeties, i.e. means for preventing movement of slidably-mounted strikers
- F41A 17/74 Hammer safeties, i.e. for preventing the hammer from hitting the cartridge or the firing pin
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class F41, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- NEXTER SYSTEMS FR 509
- AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT KR 461
- RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION DE 409
- BAE SYSTEMS GB 388
- CHONGQING JIANSHE INDUSTRY (GROUP) COMPANY 352
- AXON ENTERPRISE US 345
- LIG NEX1 COMPANY KR 323
- RAYTHEON COMPANY US 320
- KRAUSS-MAFFEI WEGMANN & COMPANY DE 263
- NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 228