CPC Definition - Subclass G06M
This place covers:
Stepping or continuously-moving mechanical counters operated through one or more inputs applied to the lowest order mechanically or electrically.
Counting systems involving applications of either mechanical, electrical, or electronic counters.
Examples of places where the subject matter of this place is covered when specially adapted, used for a particular purpose, or incorporated in a larger system:
Counting in machines for making cigarettes | |
Counting in machines for shaping metal without removing material | |
Counting in printing machines or presses | |
Counting in office copying machines | |
Counting of axles of rail vehicles | |
Counting in packaging machines | |
Entry or exit registers |
Examples of places in relation to which this place is residual:
Counting of objects conveyed through a pipe or tube | |
Adaptation of counters to electricity meters in electromechanical arrangements for measuring time integral of electric power or current | |
Counting electric pulses |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sorting, grading, counting or marking live aquatic animals | |
Table equipment for counting of consumptions | |
Counting of pills | |
Inhalers incorporating mechanisms for counting actuations | |
Score-keepers and score display devices | |
Counting of sheets in platen presses | |
Locks with counting devices | |
Tariff metering apparatus | |
Indicating or recording devices in volume flow meters | |
Counting by weighing | |
Counting of radioactive particles | |
Counting of photographic exposures | |
Watches with counting devices | |
Counting issued tickets | |
Counting of votes | |
Counting coins | |
Counting of vehicles on a road or parking space | |
Teaching of counting | |
Counting characters, words or messages in switching networks for transmission of digital information |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement for axial load only and for supporting the end face of a shaft or other member |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Counting of stacked objects |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Counting of conveyed objects |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Indicating the time by numbered drums | |
Clocks or watches with date or week-day indicators | |
Producing optical time signals at prefixed times by indicating members moved electrically |
This place covers:
Counting of randomly distributed loose objects moving past a counting station, like in chute conveyors.
This place covers:
Counting of objects in a static distribution.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Investigating particle size in general |