PTO Manual of Classification for US patents

PTO Manual of Classification for US patents

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Class Number: 136
 Class Title: BATTERIES: THERMOELECTRIC AND PHOTOELECTRIC

Subclass  Subclass
Number    Title

  200     THERMOELECTRIC
  201     .Processes
  202     .Nuclear energy type
  203     .Peltier effect device
  204     ..Including additional heat exchange means
  205     .Electric power generator
  206     ..Solar energy type
  207     ..Including an electric heater
  208     ..Plural junction concentrically or annularly arranged around
             source of temperature differential
  209     ...Plural concentrically arranged fluid source conduits
  210     ....At least one conduit for liquid coolant
  211     ..Plural hot or cold junction arranged in a single line
  212     ..Plural hot or cold junctions arranged in a single plane
  213     .Radiation pyrometer
  214     ..Including a ray concentrator (e.g., lens, mirror, etc.)
  215     ...Lens type
  216     ..Evacuated
  217     .Including a pilot burner
  218     ..Having moving fluid (e.g., air, fuel, liquid, etc.) cooling
             means for cold junction
  219     ..Thermocouple extends through fuel supply conduit
  220     ..Thermopile-containing
  221     .Including means to resiliently press junction element against
            sensed surface
  222     .Including means to standardize nonsensing junction by heating
            or cooling
  223     .Having an evacuated space
  224     .Thermopile
  225     ..Having strip, film or plate-type thermocouples
  226     ..Having wound wire-type thermocouples
  227     ..Two or more couples of dissimilar composition
  228     .One junction element surrounded by another junction element
  229     .Having additional contact means for sensing solid work
  230     .Having housing, mounting or support
  231     ..Including sample port for sensed material
  232     ..Covered and sealed sensor junction
  233     ...Contacting covering over junction (e.g., embedded, coated,
              etc.)
  234     ...Molten metal immersion type
  235     ..Thermocouple leads having disengageable pressure-type
             electrical connectors
  236.1   .Having particular thermoelectric composition
  237     ..Having particular bonding material for junction
  238     ..Chalcogenide containing (S, O, Te, Se)
  239     ..Group IV element containing (C, Si, Ti, Ge, Zr, Sn, Hf, Pb)
  240     ..Group V metal containing (V, As, Nb, Sb, Ta, Bi)
  241     ..Group IB metal containing (Cu, Ag, Au)
  242     .Adjuncts
  243     PHOTOELECTRIC
  244     .Panel or array
  245     ..Lightweight and collapsible or foldablee
  246     ..With concentrator, orientator, reflector, or cooling means
  247     ...Fluorescent concentrator
  248     ...Hybrid conversion system
  249     ..Monolithic semiconductor
  250     ..Particulate or spherical semiconductor
  251     ..Encapsulated or with housing
  252     .Cells
  253     ..Radioactive, ionic, or thermo photo
  254     ..Photoemissive, capacitive, magnetic, or ferroelectric
  255     ..Schottky, graded doping, plural junction or special junction
             geometry
  256     ..Contact, coating, or surface geometry
  257     ...Luminescent layer or optical filter
  258     ..Polycrystalline or amorphous semiconductor
  259     ..With concentrator, housing, cooling means, or encapsulated
  260     ..Cadmium containing
  261     ..Silicon or germanium containing
  262     ..Gallium containing
  263     ..Organic active material containing
  264     ..Selenium or tellurium containing
  265     ..Copper, lead, or zinc containing
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  290     TESTING, CALIBRATING, TREATING (E.G., AGING, ETC.)
  291     APPLICATIONS
  292     .Space - satellite
  293     .Circuits