IPC Main Group
G06M 1/00 Design features of general application
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PHYSICS
- Class:
- COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
- Subclass:
- COUNTING MECHANISMS; COUNTING OF OBJECTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
Related Keywords
DETENT(S) in mechanical counterspreventing OVERTHROW in mechanical countersPAWLS used in mechanical countersRATCHET mechanisms in counters
8 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- G06M 1/02 Housing
- G06M 1/04 for driving the stage of lowest order
- G06M 1/08 for actuating the drive
- G06M 1/14 for transferring a condition from one stage to a higher stage
- G06M 1/22 for visual indication of the result of count on counting mechanisms, e.g. by window with magnifying lens
- G06M 1/27 for representing the result of count in the form of electric signals, e.g. by sensing markings on the counter drum
- G06M 1/28 for zeroising or setting to a particular value
- G06M 1/38 for varying ratio of drive or transfer mechanism, e.g. by using alternative counting trains
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
- GOOGLE US 32,969
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
- INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
- TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
- APPLE US 21,891
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505