IPC Subgroup
F41A 19/06 Mechanical firing mechanisms
Introduced: January 1990
Last revised: January 2006
Full Title
Firing or trigger mechanisms; Cocking mechanisms > Mechanical firing mechanisms
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
15 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- F41A 19/07 press-button actuated, e.g. with thumb rest
- F41A 19/08 remote actuated; lanyard actuated
- F41A 19/09 Auxiliary trigger devices
- F41A 19/1 Triggers; Trigger mountings
- F41A 19/11 Trigger guards; Trigger-guard mountings
- F41A 19/12 Sears; Sear mountings
- F41A 19/13 Percussion or firing pins, i.e. fixed or slidably- mounted striker elements; Mountings therefor
- F41A 19/14 Hammers, i.e. pivotably-mounted striker elements; Hammer mountings
- F41A 19/15 Modular firing mechanism units
- F41A 19/16 Adjustable firing mechanisms; Trigger mechanisms with adjustable trigger pull
- F41A 19/17 Hair-trigger mechanisms
- F41A 19/18 for multibarrel guns
- F41A 19/24 Release-trigger mechanisms, i.e. the striker element being released during the return movement of the trigger subsequent to trigger pull
- F41A 19/25 having only slidably-mounted striker elements, i.e. percussion or firing pins
- F41A 19/42 having at least one hammer
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