CPC Definition - Subclass H02G
This place covers:
Installation of communication cables or lines, including those comprising a combination of optical and electrical conductors, or of lightning conductors as well as installation of power cables or lines.
Installation of purely optical cables is covered by G02B 6/46.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Mechanical structures of optical cables | |
Insulated conductors or cables with arrangements for facilitating mounting or securing | |
Distribution points incorporating switches | |
Guiding telephone cords | |
Cable ducts or mountings for telephone or telegraph exchange installations |
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
"electric cable" | includes cables comprising optical conductors, e.g. fibres, in combination with electrical conductors |
This place covers:
- Installation planning
- Tools for preparing walls, floor and ceilings, e.g. drilling tools
- Templates for positioning electrical boxes
- Laying cables
- Removing insulation from cables
- Joining or terminating cables
This place covers:
- Planning of high voltage electrical networks
- Maintenance and repair of overhead lines
- Apparatus for workers, e.g. robots or carriages travelling along the lines
- Specialized vehicles
- Cleaning of electrical lines
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cleaning of insulators | |
Earthing sticks for live working |
This place covers:
- Ground vehicles or helicopter stringing;
- Methods for stringing;
- Devices temporarily fixed to pole for stringing lines.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Wire stretchers in general | |
Manufacturing or repairing trolley lines |
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The process of laying cables.
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Not only inserting wires into conduits, but also removing wires from conduit where conduit stays intact.
This place does not cover:
Inserting cables into tubes using drills | |
Installing optical cables in ducts | |
Apparatus or processes for salvaging material from cables where cables are cut and destroyed |
This place does not cover:
Making a longitudinal and transverse or helical cut |
This place does not cover:
The cutting element making a longitudinal and a transverse or helical cut |
This place does not cover:
The cutting element making a longitudinal and a transverse or helical cut |
This place does not cover:
Making a longitudinal and transverse or helical cut |
This place covers:
The process of joining (end-to end) or bundling (side-by-side) or terminating cables.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of the cable terminations | |
Details of the cable joints | |
Joining electric conductors |
This place covers:
- Complete wiring of buildings or rooms;
- Pre-wired installation;
- Wirings for modular walls.
This place does not cover:
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Channels or vertical ducts for receiving utility lines on buildings | |
Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing, specially adapted for supporting the pipes all along their length, e.g. pipe channels or ducts | |
Wiring of electric apparatus in general |
This place covers:
- Manufacture of cable channels
- End pieces
- Dividers inside channels
This place does not cover:
Installation or suspension of conduit channels and other supports |
This place covers:
- Protection for fire coming from outside or inside.
- Use of intumescent materials
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Intumescent | Material expanding in case of fire or heat to fill air gaps |
This place covers:
Covers or lids only for cable channels, not for electrical boxes, housing or enclosures.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Borders for use between floor or ceiling and wall |
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Non circular channels or raceways or wire harness fully enclosing the cables
This place does not cover:
Tubings for cables |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Pipe channels or ducts |
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Raceways or conduits or wire harness having side exits for cables, e.g. breakable parts.
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Open supports for cables or wire harness
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
For pipes or ducts in general |
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Single piece channels
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Pipes placed side by side in contact with each other |
This place does not cover:
Between movable parts |
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Corrugated tubings | |
Tubings formed by a succession of articulated units |
This place does not cover:
Corrugated tubings | |
Tubings formed by a succession of articulated units |
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Vertical ducts
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Medical bed nursing arrangements |
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Only cylindrical conduits joint
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Connecting general pipes to walls |
This place does not cover:
Joints for connecting tubing to casing with bolts operating in a direction parallel to the conductors | |
Joints for connecting tubing to casing with bolts operating in a direction transverse to the conductors |
This place does not cover:
Joints for connecting tubing to casing with means biting into the conductor-insulation, e.g. teeth-like elements or gripping fingers | |
Joints for connecting tubing to casing with bolts operating in a direction parallel to the conductors | |
Joints for connecting tubing to casing with bolts operating in a direction transverse to the conductors |
This place does not cover:
Joints for connecting tubing to casing with bolts operating in a direction parallel to the conductors | |
Joints for connecting tubing to casing with bolts operating in a direction transverse to the conductors | |
Electricaly connecting said armour |
This place does not cover:
Corrugated tubings |
This place does not cover:
Corrugated tubings |
This place covers:
Connection of corrugated tubings
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cable terminations | |
Electrical connections |
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Constructional details of boxes, housings and enclosures
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Cable entry into electrical box, housings and enclosures
Through holes or openings
Grommets
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Cable fitting | cable entry |
This place covers:
The cable entry is closed before use by a removable part
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Connection of two boxes, housings and enclosures or part of boxes in order to increase inner volume
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- Fire or heat protection of boxes, housings and enclosures
- Sound protection
- Water ingress protection, e.g. with rubber joint
- Evacuation of water from inside of box, housings and enclosures
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Mounting of boxes, housings and enclosures on raceway or at a distance of raceway
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Boxes, housings and enclosures mounted inside walls
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Pre establishment of boxes in concrete |
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Boxes, housings and enclosures are covered by wall material on sides and bottom
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Boxes, housings and enclosures are inserted and fixed into a hole in dry walls
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Boxes, housings and enclosures mounted between two studs behind dry wall or ceiling panels
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- Boxes, housings and enclosures mounted on one stud behind dry wall or ceiling panels
- Boxes, housings and enclosures comprising nail or screw passage
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Flush mounted boxes, housings and enclosures into raceways
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Provisions inside the boxes, housings and enclosures for cable connecting.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Terminals | |
Details of coupling devices |
This place covers:
Fastening of apparatus into electrical boxes, housings and enclosures
This place does not cover:
Manholes or similar in outside ground |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Wall, ceiling, or floor base for lamps |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for use where pipes or cables pass through walls or partitions | |
Lead-in or lead-through insulators | |
Insulating tubes or sleeves |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Insulators in general |
This place does not cover:
Installations of cables by means of insulators |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing | |
Hose clips |
This place covers:
Means for fastening cables to walls.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing | |
Hose clips |
This place covers:
Clips, anchors, bands directly in contact with cables
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Hose clips |
This place covers:
Mounting of cable conduits
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Holding means for cables in walls.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Installations of cables or lines through walls, floors or ceilings, e.g. into buildings |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Construction of modular floors |
This place does not cover:
Structure of wall panels |
This place covers:
- Installation of flat, laminated or tubular non-insulated busbars, mostly for high current/voltage applications.
- Medium to very high voltage, gas-insulated tubular busbars arranged in a metallic casing.
- When the focus is on details of the electrical connections between different parts and not so much the installation of the busbars, these documents should be classified instead in H01R 3/00.
- When the subject matter is a supporting insulator for very heavy busbars and not the busbar itself, it should be classified in H01B 17/18 and not in H02G 5/025.
- Details involving the busbar casing and means for detecting mechanical or electrical defects are normally also classified in H02B 13/045 and H02B 13/065.
This place does not cover:
Installation of cables | |
Cable fittings | |
Power rails for vehicles | |
Electric conductors |
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:
Power rails for vehicles | |
Lighting systems having parts displaceable along a guiding element, normally a busbar |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Flat insulated conductors | |
Busbar connections in AC/DC conversion | |
Printed high current conductors | |
Wiring on insulating boards |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Non-rotary current collectors |
This place covers:
- Installation of field power lines;
- Fastening to masts and poles;
- Warning devices;
- Birds or rodents deterring means.
This place does not cover:
Installations of bus-bars |
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:
Trolley wires or contact lines for electric railways |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Fastening conductors to insulators | H01B 17/00, e.g. H01B 17/06, H01B 17/16 or H01B 17/22 |
Protection against abnormal electric conditions | |
Hook contacts for temporary connections to overhead lines |
This place covers:
Weight or spring activated means pulling on the cables
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arrangements for supporting or suspending trolley wires |
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Means releasing the cables in case of mechanical overload
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Arrangements for supporting or suspending trolley wires |
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Fastening of cables directly between two poles,
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A separate mechanical wire is used as parallel supporting device
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One side of the supporting means acts as a clamp
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Bands or wire loops,
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Rigid devices with a given length are fixed between two lines
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Device with variable length fixed between two line
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Weights or dynamic devices added to lines
This place does not cover:
Damping spacers |
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Mechanical or electrical devices, eventually using transported electricity.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Devices for removing snow or ice from insulators |
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Device placed under the lines for receiving broken lines
This place covers:
- Crossarms;
- Spatial disposition of parallel lines.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Details of construction of poles, posts or towers |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Cathodic protection | |
Detection of buried cables | |
Installations of optical cables in or on the ground or water |
This place covers:
Cables installed in or on the ground without any protection
This place does not cover:
The process of laying cables in or on the ground | |
The process of laying cables in or on the sea-bottom | |
Coverings for cables laid in or on the ground |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Manholes shafts | |
Structures for inspection |
This place covers:
Installations of cables in water.
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Transmission of electric energy between relatively-movable parts through flexible conductors.
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Tubings for conductors | |
Supplying energy to the end effector of a robot or similar manipulator | |
Current collectors for power supply lines of electrically-propelled vehicles | |
Storing means for coiled material specially adapted for repeatedly paying-out and re-storing length of material for particular purposes | |
Current collectors | |
Flexible or turnable connectors | |
Collectors for maintaining electrical contact between moving and stationary parts | |
Winding up of telephone cord |
This place covers:
Supply cables for gantry crane or similar
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- Chain with articulated elements for supporting a cable
- Cable arrangement in sliding doors
This place does not cover:
Extensible conductors or cables |
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Apparatus where part of the cable is stored on a reel or similar while power is supplied to the apparatus
This place does not cover:
Storage of cables on reels where there is no power transfer |
This place covers:
- Lightning protection devices;
- Devices modifying air characteristics in order to attract lightning stroke, e.g. radioactive;
- Routing of lightning to ground;
- Measuring electromagnetic field;
- Airplane or wind turbine protection.
In this place, the following terms or expressions are used with the meaning indicated:
Condenser | Capacitor |
This place covers:
Details of the filling material per se
This place does not cover:
Details of the sealing material | |
Inlets for cables filled with, or surrounded by, gas or oil |
This place does not cover:
Terminations for gas- or oil-filled cables |
This place does not cover:
Connections between HF conductors | |
Plug and socket connections per se |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Terminal blocks |
This place does not cover:
Condenser type devices for relieving electrical stress |
This place does not cover:
Cable Junctions for gas or oil-filled cables |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Disconnectable junctions or electrical connections |
This place does not cover:
Connections between HF conductors | |
Plug and socket connections per se |
This place does not cover:
Condenser type |
This place does not cover:
Two-part coverings |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Preforms having internal stresses |
This place does not cover:
Insulation of electrical connectors per se using a heat shrinking insulating sleeve |
This place does not cover:
Cable fittings for cryogenic cables |
Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:
Emergency protective circuit arrangements |
This place covers:
Cable fittings for very low temperature environments including superconducting cable arrangements
This place does not cover:
Superconductive cables per se |