What follows are the subclasses from one class of the Manual of Classification for US patents. As you scroll through the list and encounter a class/subclass of interest, you can jump back to the top and retrieve patent titles by entering the class/subclass in the box below.
Enter a class/subclass code here to get a list of patent titles. Use
any of the following forms:
363-131 121-55A 14-.5
that is, no embedded spaces, class and subclass seperated by a dash, and any
subclass letters capitalized. Currently Design Patent titles (those in the
classes of the form Dxx.yy) are not retreivable.
Class Number: 228 Class Title: METAL FUSION BONDING Subclass Subclass Number Title 101 PROCESS 102 .With condition responsive, program, or timing control 103 .With measuring, testing, indicating, inspecting, or illuminating 104 ..Nondestructive testing 105 ..Using optical viewing means (e.g., microscope) 106 .Using a compliant cushioning medium 107 .Using explosive energy 108 ..Specific rate of explosive burn or approach of preforms 109 ..Critical spacing between preforms 110.1 .Using high frequency vibratory energy (e.g., ultrasonic) 111 ..With treating other than heating 111.5 ..Soldering or liquid phase bonding 112.1 .Using dynamic frictional energy (i.e., friction welding) 113 ..Inertia type 114 ..With treating other than heating 114.5 ..By rotating one work surface relative to another about an axis 115 .Using only pressure (e.g., cold welding) 116 ..With pretreating of work 117 ..Cold rolling 118 .Using bond inhibiting separating material 119 .Repairing, restoring, or renewing product for reuse 120 .Mechanically joining metal/nonmetal and bonding to the metal 121 .Bonding nonmetals with metallic filler 122.1 .Metal to nonmetal with separate metallic filler 123.1 ..Semiconductor-type nonmetallic material 124.1 ..With treating 124.5 ..Active or reactive filler component 124.6 ..Forming hermetic seal (e.g., welding lid to container) 124.7 ..Forming joint of rotary shaft 125 .With removing or reshaping of filler material or flash after bonding 126 .Encasing a rodlike core within a substantially coextensive tube by complete bonding therebetween 127 ..Thermally induced pressure weld 128 ..With mechanical interlock 129 ..By bending planar part to form tube around rodlike core 130 ...Progressively 131 ..By fitting rodlike core within tube 132 ...Joining through filler 133 ....Preplacing solid tubular filler 134 ....Applying molten filler from top reservoir 135 .With supplementary mechanical joining 136 ..Deforming of work part 137 ...Lock seaming 138 ..Attaching of bridge or tie member 139 ..Using separate fastener 140 ...Threaded fastener 141.1 .With shaping 142 ..Corner mitering 143 ..Of multilayer tube from single webb 144 ..And edge joining of one piece blank or strip 145 ...To form helically seamed tube 146 ...Progressively bending and joining 147 ....Forming indefinite length member 148 .....Sheathing, cable or wire 149 ...Uniform thickness thin blank or strip 150 ....Elongated seam 151 .....Butt joining 152 ...Irregular thick blank or strip 153 ..Lap joining of parts of nonplanar surfaces 154 ...For telescoping sleeve 155 ..Subsequent to bonding 156 ...Drawing elongated member through die 157 ...Spreading or expanding work between bond joints (e.g., honeycomb or heat exchanger making, etc.) 158 ...Rolling 159 ...Removing of material 160 ....By cutting 161 .....Producing internal cavity, aperture, or opening 162 .....Abrading 163 ....By melting 164 ..Prior to bonding 165 ...Forming channel, groove, or aperture for reception of filler material 166 ....Elongated seam 167 ....Planar intersecting channel walls 168 ....Annular seam 169 .....Having U-shaped or curved cross section 170 ...By cutting 171 ....Producing opposed complementary matching bonding surface 172 ....Abrading 173.1 ...By deforming 173.2 ....Pressing first work part against second work part 173.3 ....Preforming work faying surface 173.4 ....Tube or frame member 173.5 ....Rod, bar, or wirelike object 173.6 ....Sheet material 173.7 .....Continuously feeding sheet material 174 ...Forming channel, groove, or aperture 265 ..With concurrent bonding 175 .Plural diverse bonding 176 .Combined 177 .Alternative bonding 178 .Plural joints 179.1 ..Of electrical device (e.g., semiconductor) 180.1 ...Simultaneous bonding of multiple joints (e.g., dip soldering of printed circuit boards) 180.21 ....Component terminal to substrate surface (i.e., nonpenetrating terminal) 180.22 .....Lead-less (or "bumped") device 180.5 ...Wire bonding 181 ..Honeycomb structure 182 ..Of mechanical article 183 ...Heat exchanger structure 184 ...Pressure vessels, tanks, and container-type structures 185 ..Noncoextensive lamina to common base in regular pattern 186 ..Preliminary sealing of joints 187 ..Separate successive bonds at different temperaturess 188 ..Including nonmetallic base 189 ..Using bridge or spacer 190 ..Of concurrently bonded stacked laminae 191 .With disassembling of bonded joint (e.g., desoldering) 192 .Chain link 193 .Diffusion type 194 ..Using intermediate diffusion facilitating material 195 ..With incipient melting of bonding surface 196 .Autogenous fusion 197 ..With diffusion of atoms or nuclear particles 198 .Chemical reaction produces filler material in situ 199 .With subsequent treating other than heating of bonded parts and/or filler material 200 ..Cooling under particular conditions 201 ..Cleaning 202 ...Chemical 203 .With pretreating other than heating or cooling of work part of filler prior to bonding and any application of filler 204 ..Applying porous or capillary feed material 205 ..Cleaning 206 ...Chemical 207 ....Applying flux 208 ..Applying preliminary bond facilitating metal coating 209 ...Chemical deposition 210 ...Mechanically secured 211 ..Chemical 212 .With clamping or holding 213 ..And unclamping 214 .With protecting of work or filler or applying flux 215 ..By confining filler 216 ...Using backup means 217 ..Using getter 218 ..Using gas, vapor, vacuum, or reactive flame 219 ...Gas or vapor 220 ....Reducing gas 221 ...Vacuum 222 ..Using cooling means (e.g., heat sink or barrier) 223 ..Applying flux 224 ...Flux affixed to or incorporated with filler 225 .Plural filler applying 226 ..Diverse fillers 227 .Plural heat applying 228 ..And applying pressure 229 ..Separate and distinct heating of work and filler 230 ..Diverse heating 231 ..Including post-heating 232 ..Including preheating 233.1 .Specific rate of varying pressure or schedule of distinct pressures 233.2 .Specific rate of varying temperature or schedule of distinct temperatures 234.1 .Specific mode of heating or applying pressure 234.2 ..Vapor phase heating 234.3 ..Exothermic reaction heating 235.1 ..Mode of applying pressure 235.2 ...Roll bonding 235.3 ....At specific temperature level 244 .Feeding unfused filler into fusing contact with work partt 245 .Preplacing solid filler 246 ..Particular size or shape 247 ...Indefinite length 248.1 ..Applied in powdered or particulate form 248.5 ...Nonhomogeneous metal filler particles 249 ..Joint interposed 250 ...Butt 251 ...Lap 252 ...Coextensive sheet 253 ...Attaching filler to work part 254 ....Adherent solid layer or coating (e.g., pretinned) 255 ....Mechanically secured 256 .Applying or distributing fused filler 257 ..By gravity 258 ..By capillary action 259 ..By immersing in stagnant pool 260 ..Using pumped stream or jet 261 ..Using spray 262 ..With agitating or vibrating (e.g., using ultrasonic energy) 262.1 .Critical work component, temperature, or pressure 262.2 ..Nonmetal work component without metallic filler 262.21 ...Solid state bonding 262.3 ..Nickel or cobalt member 262.31 ...Brazing or soldering 262.4 ..Ferrous metal member 262.41 ...Steel member 262.42 ....Brazing or soldering 262.43 .....And nonferrous metal member 262.44 ....And nonferrous metal member 262.45 ...Brazing or soldering 262.5 ..Aluminum or magnesium member 262.51 ...Brazing or soldering 262.6 ..Copper or noble metal member 262.61 ...Brazing or soldering 262.7 ..Refractory metal member 262.71 ...Titanium or zirconium member 262.72 ....Brazing or soldering 262.8 ...Brazing or soldering 262.9 ..Brazing or soldering 264 PROCESS OF DISASSEMBLING BONDED SURFACES, PER SE (E.G., DESOLDERING) 1.1 MEANS TO APPLY VIBRATORY SOLID-STATE BONDING ENERGY (E.G., ULTRASONIC, ETC.) TO WORK 2.1 INCLUDING MEANS TO PROVIDE HEAT BY FRICTION BETWEEN RELATIVELY MOVING SURFACES (I.E., FRICTION WELDER) 2.3 .Means to rotate one surface relative to the other about a fixed axis 2.5 EXPLOSIVE WELDING MEANS 3.1 MEANS TO BOND BY APPLYING ONLY PRESSURE (E.G., FOR COLD WELDING, ETC.) 4.1 WITH MEANS TO JUXTAPOSE AND BOND PLURAL WORKPIECES 4.5 .Wire lead bonder 5.1 .With means to treat workpieces (e.g., cutting, deforming, etc.) 5.5 .Including compliant cushioning medium 5.7 .Strip leading end to trailing end bonder 6.1 .Plural discrete workpieces 6.2 ..With electrical connection made at jointt 7 WITH MACHINE PART RESPONSIVE TO TEMPLATE OR PATTERN OR TO INDICIA CARRIED BY AUXILIARY RECORD (E.G., TAPE, CARD, ETC.) 8 WITH CONTROL MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SENSED CONDITION 9 .Work-responsive (e.g., temperature, orientation of work, etc.) 10 ..Presence of work 11 ...To control feed of filler 12 .Responsive to position of work carrier 13 WITH MEANS TO CUT OR SEPARATE WORK, FILLER, FLUX, OR PRODUCT 14 .Plus means to apply cut filler or cut flux to work 15.1 WITH MEANS TO DEFORM WORK, FILLER, OR FLUX PORTION BEFORE FUSION 16 .By a funnel-shaped conduit (e.g., welding bell, etc.) 17 .By roller means 17.5 .Comprising means forming one-piece blank into a tubular shape 17.7 ..Helical tubular shape 18 COMBINED 19 WITH MEANS TO REMOVE, COMPACT, OR SHAPE APPLIED FLUX OR FILLER 20.1 .By fluid blast or suction 20.5 ..Hand tool 21 .With shield or guide for removed material 22 .Including wiper 23 ..Comprising endless wiper 24 INCLUDING REPETITIVE IMPACT FUSION-BONDING MEANS 25 INCLUDING APPLICATOR MOVABLE DURING FUSION 26 .Including "flying" applicator engaging moving work 27 .With lateral oscillation along path of seam 28 .Reciprocatory or oscillatory motion 29 .Orbital or plane curvilinear motion 30 ..Of roller applicator 31 ...With associated bath of liquid flux or filler 32 .Means to move applicator 33 INCLUDING MEANS TO APPLY FLUX OR FILLER TO WORK OR APPLICATOR 34 .With means to skim dross 35 .By brush, wick, or pad 36 .By partial or total immersion of work or applicator into liquid 37 ..Flowing flux or filler (e.g., wave former, etc.) 38 ..With means to roll or orbit work portion 39 ..With means to mask or stop work 40 ..Comprising work immersion 41 .Solid flux or solid filler 42 .Gaseous flux 43 .Moving work 44.3 INCLUDING MEANS TO FORCE OR CLAMP WORK PORTIONS TOGETHER DURING BONDING 44.5 .Comprising tube aligning means 44.7 .Work portion comprises electrical component 45 INCLUDING MEANS TO MOVE OR GUIDE APPLICATOR 46 WITH MEANS TO COOL WORK OR PRODUCT 47.1 WITH MEANS TO HANDLE WORK OR PRODUCT 48 .Including means to rotate cylindrical work 49.1 .Including means to orient work or position work portion relative to another work portion 49.2 ..Means to rotate work and to position work about a different axis 49.3 ..Pipe joint aligner 49.4 ..Sheet alignerr 49.5 .Work portion comprises electrical component 49.6 .Work portion comprises can body 50 SEAM BACKUP MEANS 51 METALLIC HEAT APPLICATOR (E.G., SOLDERING IRON, ETC.) 52 .With means to handle flux or filler 53 ..With means to heat applicator 54 .Tip or head alloy or polymetallic structure 55 .Adjustable or detachable head or tip 56.1 SPECIALIZED POT 56.2 .Having means to treat flux or filler 56.3 SOLDER FORM 56.5 WITH SIGNAL, INDICATOR, GAUGE, OR STOP 57 MISCELLANEOUS 58 APPARATUS FOR BONDING BATTERIES (I.E., PLURAL CELLS) 59 HEAT SHIELD 60 TUBE END CLOSING * ****************************** * CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS * ****************************** 901 PROCESS OF BONDING BATTERIES 902 USING FLAME 903 METAL TO NONMETAL 904 WIRE BONDING