Eco-Patent Commons Classification List March 2009: IPC Code Title
Eco-Patent Commons Classification List March 2009: IPC Code Title
TITLE
IPC Code
SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B30B 9/02; treatment of water C02F , e.g., softening by ion-exchange C02F
B01D
1/42; arrangement or mounting of filters in air-conditioning, air-humidification or ventilation F24F 13/28)[5]
SEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS (removing fluids from solids B01D;
magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high voltage electric fields B03C;
B03B
flotation, differential sedimentation B03D; separating by dry methods B07; screening or sifting B07B; by picking B07C; separating
peculiar to particular materials and provided for in other single classes, see the relevant classes)
MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY
HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS (filters making use of electricity or magnetism B01D 35/06; separating isotopes B01D 59/00;
B03C
combinations of magnetic or electrostatic separation with separation of solids by other means B07B; separating sheets from piles B65H
3/00; magnets or magnet coils per se H01F) [5]
SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES (spray-mixers with nozzles B01F 5/20; processes for applying liquids
B05B
or other fluent materials to surfaces by spraying B05D; means for pumping fluids F04; valves, e.g., water-taps, F16K)
APPARATUS FOR APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL (spraying apparatus,
B05C atomizing apparatus, nozzles B05B; plant for applying liquids or other fluent materials to objects by electrostatic spraying B05B 5/08;
processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces B05D) [2]
B08B CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL (brushes H05F)
B09B DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE
RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL (gatherers for removing stones or the like from the soil A01B 43/00; sterilising soil by steam
B09C A01G 11/00; separation in general B01D; cleaning beaches E01H 12/00; removing undesirable matter, e.g., rubbish, from the land E01H
15/00)
WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER
(processes or devices for granulating materials in general B01J 2/00; making ceramics by compacting or sintering C04B, e.g., C04B
B22F
35/64; for the production of metals as such, see class C22; reduction or decomposition of metal compounds in general C22B; making
alloys by powder metallurgy C22C; electrolytic production of metal powder C25C 5/00)
SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING
HEAT LOCALLY, e.g., FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM (making metal-coated products by extruding metal B21C 23/22;
B23K building up linings or coverings by casting B22D 19/08; casting by dipping B22D 23/04; manufacture of composite layers by sintering
metal powder B22F 7/00; arrangements on machine tools for copying or controlling B23Q; covering metals or covering materials with
metals, not otherwise provided for F23D) (
DEDICATED TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE
FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (fuels for generating pressure gas, e.g., for rockets, C06D 00500; candles C11C; nuclear
fuel G21C 00300; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES
C10L
C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE OR UNDESIRABLE
DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; FIRE-LIGHTERS)
FATTY ACIDS FROM FATS, OILS OR WAXES; CANDLES; FATS, OILS OR FATTY ACIDS BY CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF FATS,
C11D
OILS, OR FATTY ACIDS OBTAINED THEREFROM
C12N MICRO-ORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF (biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth
regulators containing micro-organisms, viruses, microbial fungi, enzymes, fermentates, or substances produced by, or extracted from,
micro-organisms or animal material A01N 63/00; food compositions A21, A23; medicinal preparations A61K; chemical aspects of, or use
C12N
of materials for, bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles A61L; fertilisers C05); PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR
MAINTAINING MICRO-ORGANISMS (preservation of living parts of humans or animals A01N 1/02); MUTATION OR GENETIC
ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA (microbiological testing media C12Q) [3]
MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES OR MICRO-ORGANISMS (immunoassay G01N 33/53);
C12Q COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; CONDITION-
RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL OR ENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES [3]
CLEANING OR DE-GREASING OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY CHEMICAL METHODS OTHER THAN ELECTROLYSIS (polishing
C23G
compositions C09G; detergents in general C11D)
ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COMPOUNDS OR NON- METALS;
C25B
APPARATUS THEREFOR[2]
FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; EMBANKMENTS (specially adapted for hydraulic engineering E02B); UNDERGROUND OR
E02D
UNDERWATER STRUCTURES
INSTALLATIONS OR METHODS FOR OBTAINING, COLLECTING, OR DISTRIBUTING WATER (drilling wells, obtaining fluids in
E03B
general from wells E21B; pipe-line systems in general F17D)
E03F SEWERS; CESSPOOLS
EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING (mining, quarrying E21C; making shafts, driving galleries or tunnels E21D); OBTAINING OIL, GAS,
E21B
WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS [5]
GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR
EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES (arrangements in connection with gas exhaust of propulsion units in
F01N
vehicles B60K 13/00; combustion-air intake silencers specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines F02M 35/00;
protecting against, or damping, noise in general G10K 11/16)
INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL (internal-combustion turbines F02C; plants in
F02B
which engines use combustion products F02C, F02G)
DEDICATED TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE
(Duplicate IPC code) CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES (vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically
controlling vehicle speed B60K 31/00; conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function, road vehicle drive control
systems for purposes other than the control of a single sub-unit B60W; cyclically operating valves for combustion engines F01L;
F02D controlling combustion engine lubrication F01M; cooling internal-combustion engines F01P; supplying combustion engines with
combustible mixtures or constituents thereof, e.g., carburetors, injection pumps, F02M; starting of combustion engines F02N; controlling
of ignition F02P; controlling gas-turbine plants, jet-propulsion plants, or combustion- product engine plants, see the relevant subclasses
for these plants)
MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS (machines or engines for liquids and elastic fluids F01; positive-displacement engines for
F03B
liquids F03C; positive-displacement machines for liquids F04) (
F03D WIND MOTORS
F16D COUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; CLUTCHES; BRAKES
MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS;
PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring dimensions or angles of objects G01B; measuring liquid level G01F;
G01C measuring intensity or direction of magnetic fields, other than the earth's field, in general G01R; radio navigation, determining distance or
velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g., Doppler effect, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves
G01S; optical systems therefor G02B; maps, globes G09B
G01G INSTRUMENTS -- MEASURING; TESTING -- Weighing
INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (separating
components of materials in general B01D, B01J, B03, B07; apparatus fully provided for in a single other subclass, see the relevant
subclass, e.g., B01L; measuring or testing processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or micro-organisms C12M, C12Q;
investigation of foundation soil in situ E02D 1/00; monitoring or diagnostic devices for exhaust-gas treatment apparatus F01N 11/00;
sensing humidity changes for compensating measurements of other variables or for compensating readings of instruments for variations
G01N
in humidity, see G01D or the relevant subclass for the variable measured; testing or determining the properties of structures G01M;
measuring or investigating electric or magnetic properties of materials G01R; systems in general for determining distance, velocity or
presence by use of propagation effects, e.g., Doppler effect, propagation time, of reflected or reradiated radio waves, analogous
arrangements using other waves G01S; determining sensitivity, graininess, or density of photographic materials G03C 5/02; testing
component parts of nuclear reactors G21C 17/00)
PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PURPOSES (for photomechanical purposes G03F); PHOTOGRAPHIC
PROCESSES, e.g., CINE, X-RAY, COLOUR, STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES; AUXILIARY PROCESSES IN
G03C PHOTOGRAPHY (photographic processes characterised by the use or manipulation of apparatus classifiable per se in subclass G03B,
see G03B; photomechanical production of textured or patterned surfaces G03F; electrography, electrophotography, magnetography
G03G)
PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g., FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
G03F
(phototypographic composing devices B41B; photosensitive materials or processes for photographic purposes G03C; electrography,
sensitive layers or processes G03G)
G03G ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
DEDICATED TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE
DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS (display cases A47F; designs or pictures characterised by
special or unusual light effects, e.g., changing, B44F 1/00; disposition of road signs or traffic signals E01F 9/00; lighting in general F21;
G09F arrangements for controlling light beams G02F 1/00; visible signalling arrangements or devices G08B 5/00; traffic control systems G08G;
arrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information G09G; static indicating
arrangements comprising integral associations of a plurality of light sources H01J, H01K, H01L, H05B 33/12)
DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (measuring instruments G01; dynamo-electric relays H01H 53/00; conversion of dc or ac input power
H02K into surge output power H02M 9/00; loudspeakers, microphones, gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers
H04R)