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  • B - Performing operationstransporting
  • B21B - Rolling of metal
  • B21B 1/22 - Metal rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-sectionSequence of operations in milling trainsLayout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of standsSuccession of passes or of sectional pass alternations for rolling bands or sheets of indefinite length

Patent holdings for IPC class B21B 1/22

Total number of patents in this class: 789

10-year publication summary

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Principal owners for this class

Owner
All patents
This class
JFE Steel Corporation
7549
123
Nippon Steel Corporation
6895
55
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
992
37
Novelis Inc.
781
28
SMS Group GmbH
1200
27
Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
1104
22
Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
436
18
ArcelorMittal
2680
15
UACJ Corporation
740
14
POSCO
2142
13
Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH
575
13
Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
382
11
POSCO Co., Ltd.
2015
11
Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
1896
10
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
4245
10
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
1981
9
Outokumpu Oyj
265
9
Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
2836
8
Primetals Technologies Japan, Ltd.
180
8
Taiyuan University of Technology
313
8
Other owners 340