IPC Main Group
H01J 25/00 Transit-time tubes, e.g. klystrons, travelling-wave tubes, magnetrons
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- ELECTRICITY
- Class:
- ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- Subclass:
- ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
Filing statistics
IPC H01J 25/00 belongs to the parent subclass H01J, which recorded 110,789 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 9,068 in 2013 to 10,705 in 2023 (+18%), peaking at 11,872 applications in 2021. The most active applicants in class H01 are TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY (43,574 applications), SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (42,206 applications) and LG CHEM (21,383 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
Related Keywords
TRANSIT -time tubes
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Child Classifications
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- H01J 25/02 Tubes with electron stream modulated in velocity or density in a modulator zone and thereafter giving-up energy in an inducing zone, the zones being associated with one or more resonators
- H01J 25/34 Travelling-wave tubes; Tubes in which a travelling wave is simulated at spaced gaps
- H01J 25/5 Magnetrons, i.e. tubes with a magnet system producing an H-field crossing the E-field
- H01J 25/61 Hybrid tubes, i.e. tubes comprising a klystron section and a travelling-wave section
- H01J 25/62 Strophotrons, i.e. tubes with H-field crossing the E-field and functioning with plural reflection
- H01J 25/64 Turbine tubes, i.e. tubes with H-field crossing the E-field and functioning with reversed cyclotron action
- H01J 25/66 Tubes with electron stream crossing itself and thereby interrupting, or interfering with, itself
- H01J 25/68 Tubes specially designed to act as oscillator with positive grid and retarding field, e.g. for Barkhausen-Kurz oscillators
- H01J 25/74 Tubes specially designed to act as transit-time diode oscillators, e.g. monotrons
- H01J 25/76 Dynamic electron-multiplier tubes, e.g. Farnsworth multiplier tube, multipactor
- H01J 25/78 Tubes with electron stream modulated by deflection in a resonator
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class H01, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY TW 43,574
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 42,206
- LG CHEM KR 21,383
- APPLIED MATERIALS US 20,441
- LG ENERGY SOLUTION KR 20,279
- SAMSUNG DISPLAY KR 19,725
- CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 19,400
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 18,819
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 18,082
- TOKYO ELECTRON JP 17,634