IPC Subgroup
F41G 1/46 for particular applications
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Full Title
Sighting devices > for particular applications
Classification Context
- Section:
- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- Class:
- WEAPONS
- Subclass:
- WEAPON SIGHTS; AIMING
5 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- F41G 1/467 for bows
- F41G 1/473 for lead-indicating or range-finding, e.g. for use with rifles or shotguns
- F41G 1/48 for firing grenades from rifles
- F41G 1/5 for trench mortars
- F41G 1/52 for rifles or shotguns having two or more barrels, or adapted to fire different kinds of ammunition, e.g. ball or shot
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