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| 4G075 | PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES AND APPARATUS | |
| B01J10/00 -12/02@Z;14/00-19/32 | ||
| B01J10/00-12/02@Z;14/00-19/32 | AA | AA00 PURPOSE |
AA01 | AA02 | AA03 | AA04 | AA05 | AA06 | AA07 | |||
| . Manufacture or treatment of substances | . . Manufacture or treatment of fluids | . . . Manufacture or treatment of gases (AA05 takes precedence) | . . . . Conversion or fixing of carbon dioxide | . . . . Manufacture or generation of gases | . . . . . Manufacture of inert gases or mixtures thereof | . . . . . Manufacture of ozone | ||||||
| AA13 | AA14 | AA15 | ||||||||||
| . . . Manufacture or treatment of liquids (AA14 takes precedence) | . . . . Manufacture of liquids | . . . . Manufacture or treatment of aqueous liquids | ||||||||||
| AA22 | AA23 | AA24 | AA25 | AA27 | AA29 | AA30 | ||||||
| . . Manufacture or treatment of solids (AA23 takes precedence) | . . . Manufacture of solids (AA33 takes precedence) | . . . . Thin films or films | . . . . . Monomolecular built-up films | . . . Manufacture or treatment of fine particles | . . . Manufacture or treatment of elongated or successive materials | . . . Surface treatment of solids | ||||||
| AA32 | AA33 | AA34 | AA35 | AA37 | AA39 | |||||||
| . . Manufacture or treatment of polymers | . . Gel manufacture gelation or solidification treatment | . . Treatment or handling of very viscous or very sticky substances | . . Treatment or handling of slurries | . . Treatment or handling of waste materials or deleterious materials | . . Manufacture or treatment of wide varieties of products in small quantities | |||||||
| AA41 | AA42 | AA43 | AA44 | AA45 | AA46 | |||||||
| . Energy generation recovery or operations | . . Energy generation | . . Energy conversion | . . Heat recovery | . . Heat exchange or heat transportation | . . Heat storage cold storage heat accumulation or cold accumulation | |||||||
| AA51 | AA52 | AA53 | AA54 | AA56 | AA57 | |||||||
| . Security or handling of plants apparatus or the like | . . Prevention of adhesion | . . Prevention of corrosion | . . Prevention of explosion or fires | . . Assembly or disassembly of plants apparatus or the like | . . Cleaning of plants apparatus or the like | |||||||
| AA61 | AA62 | AA63 | AA65 | AA67 | AA70 | |||||||
| . Control regulation or monitoring | . . Regulation or control of reactions | . . Regulation or control of temperature | . . Monitoring observation or inspection | . . Plant simulation | . Others * | |||||||
| BA | BA00 TREATMENT OPERATION 1 (UNIT REACTION) |
BA01 | BA02 | BA04 | BA05 | BA06 | BA08 | BA10 | ||||
| . Vapour phase reactions | . Solid phase reactions | . Photochemical reactions or photosynthesis | . Decomposition or modification | . Oxidation reduction or neutralisation | . Ionisation | . Others i.e. involving reactions * | ||||||
| BB | BB00 TREATMENT OPERATION 2 (UNIT OPERATION) |
BB01 | BB02 | BB03 | BB04 | BB05 | BB06 | BB07 | BB08 | BB10 | ||
| . Concentration or dilution | . Evaporation vaporisation or drying | . Dissolution extraction or melting | . Absorption adsorption or desorption | . Separation or mixing | . Humidifying or increasing humidity | . Purification | . Dispersion or coagulation | . Others i.e. not involving reactions * | ||||
| BC | BC00 TREATMENT OPERATION 3 (OTHERS) |
BC01 | BC02 | BC03 | BC04 | BC05 | BC06 | BC07 | BC08 | BC10 | ||
| . Physical vapour deposition (PVD) | . . Sputtering | . . Ion plating | . Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) | . Epitaxial growth | . Etching | . Doping | . . Ion implantation | . Others * | ||||
| BD | BD00 TREATMENT OPERATION 4 (STATE OF OBJECT) |
BD01 | BD02 | BD03 | BD04 | BD05 | BD07 | BD08 | BD09 | BD10 | ||
| . exhibiting specified flow states | . . Vertical flows | . . . Flowing down | . . . Rising flows | . . Transverse flows | . . Meandering flows or zigzag flows | . . Radial flows or centrifugal flows | . . Vortex flows or jet flows | . . . Circulation flows | ||||
| BD11 | BD12 | BD13 | BD14 | BD15 | BD16 | BD17 | ||||||
| . exhibiting specified states of contact | . . Gas-gas contact | . . Gas-liquid contact (BD27 takes precedence) | . . Gas-solid contact | . . Liquid-liquid contact | . . Liquid-solid contact | . . Gas-liquid-solid contact | ||||||
| BD22 | BD23 | BD24 | BD26 | BD27 | BD30 | |||||||
| . . Concurrent flow contact | . . Countercurrent contact | . . Cross-flow contact | . . Thin-film contact | . . Blowing gases into liquids or bubbling contact | . Others * | |||||||
| CA | CA00 TREATMENT MEANS |
CA01 | CA02 | CA03 | CA05 | |||||||
| . by heat treatment or heating operations (EA05-EA07 take precedence) | . . Heating | . . Cooling | . by pressure operations e.g. adiabatic expansion | |||||||||
| CA11 | CA12 | CA13 | CA14 | CA15 | CA16 | CA17 | CA18 | CA20 | ||||
| . characterised by energy application means | . . Electrical energy | . . . Conducting | . . . Addition of electric fields | . . . Electrical discharge | . . . . Glow discharge | . . . . Arc discharge | . . . . Corona discharge | . . . Use of electrochemical reactions or electrolysis | ||||
| CA22 | CA23 | CA24 | CA25 | CA26 | ||||||||
| . . Wave or particle radiation energy | . . . Sound waves or ultrasonic waves | . . . Electromagnetic waves or radio waves (radiations CA38) | . . . . High-frequency waves | . . . . . Microwaves | ||||||||
| CA32 | CA33 | CA34 | CA35 | CA36 | CA38 | CA39 | ||||||
| . . . . Light heat rays or sunlight | . . . . . Ultra-violet light | . . . . . Infra-red light | . . . . . Far-infra-red light | . . . . . Laser light | . . . Radiations or X-rays | . . . . Ion beams electron beams atomic beams or molecular beams | ||||||
| CA42 | CA43 | CA45 | CA47 | CA48 | ||||||||
| . . Magnetic energy | . . . Alternating magnetic fields or rotating magnetic fields | . . Combustion flames or combustion energy | . . Irradiation or use of plasma (EB41-EB44 take precedence) | . . . Thermal plasma or high-temperature plasma (EB43 takes precedence) | ||||||||
| CA51 | CA52 | CA53 | CA54 | CA55 | CA56 | CA57 | ||||||
| . Addition or use of specified substances * | . . Use of heat-absorbing materials | . . Use of surface protection fluids | . . Use of catalysts or adsorbents | . . Use of ion exchange bodies | . . Use of organisms or microorganisms | . . Addition of chemicals * | ||||||
| CA61 | CA62 | CA63 | CA65 | CA66 | ||||||||
| . Application in specified environments * | . . specifying atmosphere gases * | . . . Inert atmospheres | . . Adaption of special pressures e.g. ultra-high pressures | . . Adaption of special temperatures e.g. ultra-high temperature | ||||||||
| CA72 | CA73 | CA74 | CA80 | |||||||||
| . . Application under high gravity or zero-gravity or in space | . . Application in the ground or underground | . . Application in ocean or sea bottoms | . Others * | |||||||||
| DA | DA00 PLANT |
DA01 | DA02 | DA03 | DA04 | DA05 | DA07 | DA08 | ||||
| . with flow sheets or plant flow sheets | . . with layouts | . . with circuit diagrams | . . with control flow diagrams | . . with time charts | . Plants with movable tanks | . Automation plants | ||||||
| DA11 | DA12 | DA13 | DA15 | DA16 | DA18 | DA20 | ||||||
| . characterised by operating processes * | . . successively operating (AA29 takes precedence) | . . comprising multiple steps | . Adaption of specified locational conditions * | . . Water flotation type plants | . Plants or operating processes with defined conditions e.g. defined numeric values * | . Others * | ||||||
| EA | EA00 APPARATUS 1 (INSTALLATION TYPE OR HEATING TYPE) |
EA01 | EA02 | EA03 | EA05 | EA06 | EA07 | EA10 | ||||
| . Vertical types | . Horizontal types | . Inclined types | . Internal heating or cooling types | . External heating or cooling types | . heating or cooling externally and internally | . Others * | ||||||
| EB | EB00 APPARATUS 2 (SHAPE OR TYPE) |
EB01 | EB02 | EB04 | EB05 | EB06 | EB07 | EB09 | ||||
| . Vessel types chamber types or dome types | . . Wetted wall types | . . Plate column types | . . . having internal elements other than plates | . . . . having bubble caps | . . . . having vibration-proof tools | . . Packed column types | ||||||
| EB12 | EB13 | EB15 | ||||||||||
| . . Autoclave types | . . Crucible types | . . Openable and closable vessel types (EB12 takes precedence) | ||||||||||
| EB21 | EB22 | EB23 | EB24 | EB25 | EB27 | |||||||
| . Tube types | . . Bent tubes or tubes having non-uniform diameters | . . . U-tubes or meandering U-tubes | . . . Annular tubes | . . . Spiral tubes | . . Multiple tubes | |||||||
| EB31 | EB32 | EB33 | EB34 | EB35 | EB37 | EB39 | ||||||
| . Irradiation types | . . having optical members | . . . Reflectors | . . . Lenses | . . . Prisms | . . having shutters | . . Image furnace types | ||||||
| EB41 | EB42 | EB43 | EB44 | EB46 | EB50 | |||||||
| . Plasma generation types | . . Parallel flat plate types | . . Plasma gun or plasma torch types | . . Generation chamber isolated types or electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) types | . Specifying shapes e.g. pyramid shapes * | . Others * | |||||||
| EC | EC00 APPARATUS 3 (COMPONENT) (PACKING ELEMENT OR THE LIKE, VIEWPOINT EE) |
EC01 | EC02 | EC03 | EC04 | EC06 | EC07 | EC09 | EC10 | |||
| . Nozzle bodies | . . Perforated nozzles | . . Multiple nozzles | . . Venturis or ejectors | . Tube bodies | . . Multi-tube bodies | . Partitioning members or baffles | . . cylindrical or annular | |||||
| EC11 | EC12 | EC13 | EC14 | EC15 | ||||||||
| . Agitating members | . Scraping members | . Clamps or supporting members | . Inspection windows | . Working gloves manipulators or the like | ||||||||
| EC21 | EC23 | EC25 | EC26 | EC30 | ||||||||
| . Electrodes | . Multiple walls (EB27 takes precedence) | . Accessories or auxiliary apparatus * | . . Coupling means between apparatus | . Others * | ||||||||
| ED | ED00 APPARATUS 4 (MOVABLE BODY) |
ED01 | ED02 | ED03 | ED04 | ED06 | ED08 | ED09 | ||||
| . Rotary bodies | . . Blade bodies | . . Helical bodies or screws | . . Roll or drum bodies | . . Twin shaft or multishaft rotating bodies | . . having vertical rotating shafts | . . having horizontal rotating shafts | ||||||
| ED11 | ED13 | ED15 | ED17 | ED18 | ED20 | |||||||
| . Belts or conveyers | . Reciprocating bodies | . Vibrating or oscillating bodies | . Free-moving bodies or free-falling bodies | . . Floating bodies on the liquid surface e.g. floats | . Others * | |||||||
| EE | EE00 APPARATUS 5 (PACKING ELEMENT, DISTRIBUTOR, OR THE LIKE) |
EE01 | EE02 | EE03 | EE04 | EE05 | EE06 | EE07 | ||||
| . characterised by shapes of unit elements | . . cylindrical annular or tubular hollow pipe shapes | . . trough-shaped | . . rod-shaped | . . spherical or hemispherical | . . in the form of saddles or twisted ribbons | . . linear or band-shaped | ||||||
| EE12 | EE13 | EE15 | ||||||||||
| . . in the form of plates films or sheets | . . in the form of cups bowls or trays | . . in the form of cages or frameworks or radiation | ||||||||||
| EE21 | EE22 | EE23 | EE24 | |||||||||
| . characterised by manufacture or assembly of unit elements | . . by deformation or processing from a single member | . . by assembly of a plurality of kinds of members | . . by vortex assembly | |||||||||
| EE31 | EE32 | EE33 | EE34 | EE36 | EE40 | |||||||
| . characterised by arrangements inside apparatus | . . Random arrangements | . . Arrangements for forming honeycomb flow paths | . . Arrangements for forming grid type flow paths | . . Arrangements of a plurality of kinds of members or arrangements different depending on places | . Others * | |||||||
| FA | FA00 APPARATUS 6 (STRUCTURE OF DETAIL) |
FA01 | FA02 | FA03 | FA05 | FA06 | FA08 | |||||
| . having notches or through-holes | . . Microscopic holes | . . Mesh holes | . having uneven surfaces | . . Corrugated uneven surfaces | . having projecting members or hooks | |||||||
| FA11 | FA12 | FA14 | FA16 | FA20 | ||||||||
| . Composite structures or composite materials | . . Multilayer structures or layered products | . Porous bodies or foam | . Woven members or non-woven fabrics | . Others * | ||||||||
| FB | FB00 APPARATUS 7 (MATERIAL OR MATERIAL QUALITY) |
FB01 | FB02 | FB03 | FB04 | FB05 | FB06 | |||||
| . Inorganic materials | . . Metals or alloys | . . Carbon or graphite materials | . . Ceramics or bricks | . . Cements concrete or plaster | . . Glass or quartz glass | |||||||
| FB11 | FB12 | FB13 | FB20 | |||||||||
| . Organic materials | . . Plastics | . . Rubbers | . Others * | |||||||||
| FC | FC00 APPARATUS 8 (FUNCTION OR PHYSICAL PROPERTY) |
FC01 | FC02 | FC04 | FC06 | FC07 | FC09 | FC10 | ||||
| . Substance transmission bodies | . . having separating or filtering functions | . Transparent translucent or light transmission bodies | . Heat-resistant materials or heat-insulating materials | . Heaters or heat-accumulating bodies | . Corrosion-resistant oxidation-resistant or chemical-resistant materials | . Pressure-resistant materials | ||||||
| FC11 | FC12 | FC13 | FC15 | FC17 | FC20 | |||||||
| . Conductors or heat conductors | . . Superconductors | . . Semiconductors | . Dielectrics or insulators | . Stretchable materials or elastic bodies | . Others * |