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IPC Main Group
G05B 19/00

Program-control systems

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 2006

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
CONTROLLING; REGULATING
Subclass:
CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS

Additional Content

Automatic control of the different phases of cleaning in washing or rinsing machines for crockery or table-ware Programmed medicine dispensers Disinfection or sterilising Heart pace-makers Steering-mechanisms for toy vehicles Centrifuges Thickness of work produced by metal-rolling mills Bending metal rods, profiles or tubes Boring or drilling machines , Electrical discharge or electrochemical machining Assembling of parts to compose units Series of individual steps in grinding a workpiece Manipulators Presses Sequence of operations in printing machines or presses Feeding sheets or webs in typewriters Sequence of operations in apparatus or devices for manifolding, duplicating or printing for commercial purposes Selecting text or image to be printed in addressing machines Traction-motor speed of electrically-propelled vehicles Piling articles Crane drives , Dispensing, delivering or transferring liquids Sewing machines , Embroidering machines Operations in washing machines Combustion engines , Supply of combustible mixture or its constituents to combustion engines Fluid-pressure actuator systems Combustion in combustion apparatus , Weighing apparatus Electromechanical clocks or watches , Mechanically operating digital computers Control units for electric digital data processing Peripheral devices for electric digital data processing Electrically operating digital computers Electrically or magnetically operating analogue computers Marking or sensing record carriers with digital information Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices , , Electric switches Electron-beam or ion-beam tubes used for localised treatment of objects Electronic switching or gating Selecting arrangements in electric communication technique

Related Keywords

following CONTOURS in program control arrangementsfollowing CURVES in program controlprogram control of POSITION in machine toolsPROGRAM(S) control systems

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Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G05, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SIEMENS DE 4,725
  2. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 4,571
  3. FANUC JP 4,233
  4. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION JP 3,143
  5. FANUC 2,981
  6. ROBERT BOSCH DE 2,813
  7. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 2,500
  8. LG ELECTRONICS KR 2,182
  9. OMRON CORPORATION JP 2,036
  10. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 1,981