IPC Main Group
H02K 21/00 Synchronous motors having permanent magnets; Synchronous generators having permanent magnets
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- ELECTRICITY
- Class:
- GENERATION, CONVERSION, OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- Subclass:
- DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
Filing statistics
IPC H02K 21/00 belongs to the parent subclass H02K, which recorded 426,168 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 23,896 in 2013 to 46,626 in 2023 (+95%), peaking at 54,100 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class H02 are SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) (54,496 applications), MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION (10,495 applications) and TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (9,464 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
6 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- H02K 21/02 Details
- H02K 21/12 with stationary armatures and rotating magnets
- H02K 21/26 with rotating armatures and stationary magnets
- H02K 21/38 with rotating flux distributors, and armatures and magnets both stationary
- H02K 21/46 Motors having additional short-circuited winding for starting as an asynchronous motor
- H02K 21/48 Generators with two or more outputs
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class H02, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 54,496
- MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION JP 10,495
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 9,464
- GUANGDONG POWER GRID CORPORATION 9,339
- ROBERT BOSCH DE 8,226
- SIEMENS DE 8,218
- DENSO CORPORATION 7,063
- MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION 6,619
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 5,826
- GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES 5,094