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CLASS 205, | ELECTROLYSIS: PROCESSES, COMPOSITIONS USED THEREIN, AND METHODS OF PREPARING THE COMPOSITIONS |
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SECTION I - LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES AND WITHIN THIS CLASS
Class 205 is an integral part of Class 204. It incorporates all the definitions and rules as to subject matter of Class 204.
Class 205 is an integral part of Class 204 (placed at the top of the schedule) and follows the schedule hierarchy, retaining all pertinent definitions and class lines of Class 204.
SUBCLASSES
43 | ELECTROLYSIS INVOLVING ACTINIDE SERIES ELEMENT OR COMPOUND (AT. NO. 89+) (PRODUCT, PROCESS, COMPOSITION, AND METHOD OF PREPARING COMPOSITION): | ||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter wherein the processes involve the electrolysis
of, or upon, an actinide element or compound thereof.
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44 | Plutonium: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Subject matter wherein the actinide series element is plutonium
or a compound thereof.
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45 | Thorium: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Subject matter wherein the actinide series element is thorium
or a compound thereof.
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46 | Uranium: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 43. Subject matter wherein the actinide series element is uranium
or a compound thereof.
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47 | Utilizing fused bath: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 46. Subject matter wherein the electrolytic process is carried out in an electrolytic medium consisting of a substance or combination or mixture of substances which are heated above ordinary, normal room temperature during a process in order to bring the substance or substances to a fluid or liquid condition (e.g., a molten bath, etc.). | |
48 | Involving electrolytic coating, etching, or polishing: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 46. Subject matter wherein the process includes an electrolytic coating or etching or polishing step. | |
49 | Uranium containing compound produced: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 46. Subject matter wherein a uranium containing compound is
produced.
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50 | Product produced by electrolysis involving electrolytic marking, battery electrode active material forming, electroforming or electrolytic coating: |
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter wherein a product is made by the process of electrolytic marking, utilizing electrolysis to form battery electrode active material, electroforming or electrolytic coating with the following exception: products which form two or more contiguous metallic layers (see Class 428). | |
51 | Superconductor preparation involving electrolytic marking, electroforming or electrolytic coating, or composition therefor: |
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter wherein an article described as a superconductor is prepared utilizing electrolytic marking, electroforming, or electrolytic coating. | |
52 | Electrolytic marking or composition therefor: | ||||||||||||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter for the development of successive marks,
letters, designs and the like, upon a surface or within the body
of a carrier, wherein electrical impulses from an electrode are
employed to create by electrolysis, at selected areas, different
colors, shades, or shapes resulting in the desired symbol (e.g., electroprinting,
etc.).
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53 | Utilizing inorganic color forming material other than carbon: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Subject matter wherein an inorganic color-forming material
other than carbon is utilized.
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54 | Utilizing organic color-forming material: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 52. Subject matter wherein an organic color-forming material is utilized. | |
55 | Heterocyclic color-forming material: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Subject matter wherein the organic color-forming material contains a heterocyclic ring. | |
56 | Hydroxyl or carboxyl group-containing color-forming material: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 54. Subject matter wherein the organic color-forming material contains a hydroxyl (OH) or carboxyl (COOH) group. | |
57 | Utilizing electrolysis to form battery electrode active material or composition therefor: |
| This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter wherein battery electrode active material is formed or deposited utilizing electrolysis and compositions used for such electrolysis. | |
58 | Organic active material other than organic metal salt: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 57. Subject matter wherein the active material is organic and not an organic metal salt. | |
59 | Group IA metal-containing active material (e.g., Li, Na, K, etc.): |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 57. Subject matter wherein the active material contains a metal from group IA of the Periodic Table of Elements (e.g., Li, Na, K, etc.) as an essential constituent. | |
60 | Nickel-containing active material: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 57. Subject matter wherein the active material contains nickel as an essential constituent. | |
61 | Cadmium-containing: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 60. Subject matter wherein the active material also contains cadmium as an essential ingredient. | |
62 | Cadmium-containing active material: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 57. Subject matter wherein the active material contains cadmium as an essential constituent. | |
63 | Lead-containing active material: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 57. Subject matter wherein the active material contains lead as an essential constituent. | |
64 | Zinc-containing active material: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 57. Subject matter wherein the active material contains zinc as an essential constituent. | |
65 | Silver-containing active material: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 57. Subject matter wherein the active material contains silver as an essential constituent. | |
66 | Iron- or tin-containing active material: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 57. Subject matter wherein the active material contains iron or tin as an essential constituent. | |
67 | Electroforming or composition therefor: | ||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject matter involving the reproduction or formation of
objects by electrodeposition in which the deposit does not remain
with the base upon which deposition is made and compositions therefor.
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68 | Recording device: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein recordings or records and record
matrices or molds are produced (e.g., sound recordings, etc.).
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69 | Printing plate or electrotype: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein printing plates or electrotypes are
produced.
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70 | Mold, mask, or masterform: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein molds, masks, or masterforms are produced. | |
71 | Mirror or reflector: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein mirrors or reflectors are produced.
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72 | Ornamental article: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein ornamental articles are produced.
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73 | Roll, ring, or hollow body: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein rolls, rings, or hollow bodies are
produced.
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74 | Powder, flakes, or colloidal particles: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein the objects formed are powder, flakes,
or colloidal particles.
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75 | Perforated or foraminous article: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein the objects formed are perforated
or foraminous.
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76 | Sheet, web, wire, or filament: | ||||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein the object produced is a sheet, web,
wire, or filament.
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77 | Of indeterminate length: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 76. Subject matter wherein the sheets, webs, wires, or filaments
formed are of indeterminate length.
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78 | Electrical product: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein the product produced is described as having utility as an electrical element. | |
79 | Optical element: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Subject matter wherein the product produced is described as having utility as an optical element. | |
80 | Electrolytic coating (process, composition and method of preparing composition): | ||||
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Process directed to the formation or deposition by an electrolytic
action of a permanent coating material or materials upon a base,
electrolyte compositions therefor and methods of making said electrolyte
compositions.
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81 | Involving measuring, analyzing, or testing: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the process includes a step of measuring, analyzing, or testing. | |
82 | Controlling coating process in response to measured or detected parameter: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 81. Subject matter wherein the electrolytic coating process is controlled in response to a measured or detected parameter thereof or of a characteristic of the electrolytic coating formed. | |
83 | Parameter is current, current density, or voltage: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 82. Subject matter wherein the parameter measured or detected is the current, current density, or voltage of the electrolytic coating process. | |
84 | Parameter is thickness, weight, or composition of coating: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 82. Subject matter wherein the characteristic measured, analyzed, or tested is the thickness, weight, or composition of the electrolytic coating. | |
85 | Displacement or replacement coating: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein a coating is formed on a substrate by the phenomenon usually known as displacement or replacement plating wherein a more active metal part of the surface of an object is dissolved and replaced by a less active metal coating derived from a bath composition. | |
86 | Employing internal battery action during coating: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the electric current is self-generated and without the use of an external power source. | |
87 | Simultaneous deplating and plating: | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein a coating is electrolytically deposited
or formed on an article while simultaneously electrolytically removing
a coating therefrom.
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88 | Utilizing subatmospheric or superatmospheric pressure during coating: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the electrolytic coating process is performed under a subatmospheric or superatmospheric pressure which means a pressure other than the normal atmospheric pressure in the surrounding atmosphere. | |
89 | Utilizing magnet or magnetic field during coating: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein a magnet or magnetic field is used during the electrolytic coating process. | |
90 | Ferromagnetic material deposited: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 89. Subject matter wherein a ferromagnetic material is electrolytically deposited under the influence of a magnetic field. | |
91 | Utilizing electromagnetic wave energy during coating (e.g., visible light, etc.): |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the electrolytic action is supplemented by the application of electromagnetic wave energy. | |
92 | Energy produced by laser: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 91. Subject matter wherein the electromagnetic wave energy is provided by a laser. | |
93 | Contacting coating as it forms with solid member or material other than electrode: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the coating is simultaneously contacted by solid material or a solid member other than an electrode as it is formed (e.g., simultaneous electroplating and honing, simultaneous electroplating and burnishing, etc.). | |
94 | Utilizing mist prevention: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein misting of the electrolyte is prevented by, for example, the use of chemical additives or by physical means (e.g., foaming means, particles floating on the bath, etc.). | |
95 | Coating has specified thickness variation: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the electrolytic coating is carried out in such a manner that the coating is deliberately nonuniform in thickness. | |
96 | Controlling current distribution within bath: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the electrolytic process is carried out with means present or with control thereof such that a desired current distribution is maintained on the article being coated. | |
97 | Shaped counterelectrode: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 96. Subject matter wherein a shaped counterelectrode is used to control the current distribution on the article being coated (e.g., a counterelectrode matching the profile of the article being coated, etc.). | |
98 | Treating process fluid by means other than agitation or heating or cooling: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein fluids used in the process (e.g., electrolytes, rinse water, effluents, etc.) are physically, electrically, or chemically treated (e.g., recovery of chemicals, purification, effluent discharge, etc.). | |
99 | Purifying electrolyte: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 98. Subject matter wherein the electrolyte is purified by removing
or inactivating contaminants or interferents therefrom (e.g., dummying,
ion exchange, precipitation, filtering, activated carbon treatment,
complexation, etc.).
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100 | Treating rinse solution (e.g., rinse water, etc.): |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 98. Subject matter wherein the process fluid treated is a rinse solution (e.g., recovery and reuse of rinse water, recovery of plating chemicals from rinse water, etc.). | |
101 | Regenerating or maintaining electrolyte (e.g., self-regulating bath, etc.): |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 98. Subject matter wherein the electrolyte ingredients are regenerated or maintained to optimum condition (e.g., self-regulating bath, recirculation of electrolyte through metal pieces to supply metal ions for plating, etc.). | |
102 | Depositing predominantly single metal or alloy coating on single metal or alloy using specified waveform other than pure DC: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein a predominantly single metal or alloy coating is deposited on single metal or alloy utilizing an electric current which is not pure DC (e.g., stepped voltage, etc.). | |
103 | Reversing current or voltage: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 102. Subject matter wherein the specified waveform is a reversing current or voltage which has a positive and negative component (e.g., periodic reversed current, superimposed AC on DC, etc.). | |
104 | Nonreversing pulsed current or voltage: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 103. Subject matter wherein the specified waveform repetitively changes from one current or voltage level to another (e.g., pulses of current separated by periods of no current flow, etc.). | |
105 | Depositing predominantly single metal or alloy coating on nonmetal using specified waveform other than pure DC or 60 Hz sine wave AC (e.g., single metal or alloy coating within or above pores of anodic oxide layer, etc.): | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the current or voltage used is other
than pure DC or 60 Hz sine wave AC (e.g., periodic reversed current,
pulsed current, superimposed AC on DC, etc.) and wherein a predominantly
single metal or alloy is deposited on nonmetal (e.g., copper on anodic
oxide, etc.).
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106 | Forming nonmetal coating using specified waveform other than pure DC or 60 Hz sine wave AC (e.g., anodic oxide coating, etc.): | ||
This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the electric current is not pure
DC or 60 Hz sine wave AC (e.g., stepped voltage, etc.) and where
the coating formed is predominantly a nonmetal (e.g., anodic oxide,
chromate, Si, phosphate, Se, etc.).
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107 | Reversing current or voltage: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 106. Subject matter wherein the specified waveform is a reversing current or voltage which has a positive and negative component (e.g., periodic reversed current, superimposed AC on DC, etc.). | |
108 | Nonreversing pulsed current or voltage: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 106. Subject matter wherein the specified waveform repetitively changes from one current or voltage level to another (e.g., pulses of current separated by periods of no current flow, etc.) and wherein the pulses contain no reversed pulses. | |
109 | Coating contains embedded solid material (e.g., particles, etc.): |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein solid material becomes embedded in the coating as a distinct phase and the solid material is supplied by solid material in the electrolyte or solid material sprinkled or placed upon a substrate and embedded in the coating as it forms. | |
110 | Abrasive article produced: | ||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 109. Subject matter wherein the article produced has abrasive
utility (e.g., substrate coated with a nickel layer containing embedded
silicon carbide particles or diamond particles, etc.).
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111 | Coating is dendritic or nodular: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the coating process is performed to achieve a dendritic or nodular coating (e.g., nodular copper, etc.). | |
112 | Coating is discontinuous single metal or alloy layer (e.g., islands, porous layer, etc.): |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the coating process is performed to achieve a metal layer which has a plurality of discontinuities therein (e.g., microporous layer, islands, etc.). | |
113 | Coating is microcracked: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 112. Subject matter wherein the discontinuous coating is described as microcracked (e.g., microcracked chromium, etc.). | |
114 | Uniting two separate solid materials: | ||||
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the electrolytic coating is used
to unite distinct articles or parts of an article one to another.
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115 | Repairing: |
| This subclass is indented under subclass 80. Subject matter wherein the electrolytic coating is used
to restore a previously worn or degraded coating (e.g., worn bearing
surfaces, etc.).
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