Patent Interchange: F-Term thesaurus enhancements


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F-terms are patent classifications assigned by the Japanese patent office and available in CA/CAplus from 2004 to the present. They are searchable in the /FTERM field.

The F-Term thesaurus has now been enhanced with hierarchical information. The additional terms allow you to use F-Terms to extend your topic search for additional results.

Find recent Japanese patent documents relating to exhaust emissions. What firms are patenting in this area?

=> FIL CAPLUS

Search for exhaust emissions and patent documents from Japan.

=> S EXHAUST(S)EMISS? AND P/DT AND PY.B>=2006 AND JP/PC

100946 EXHAUST

2950 EXHAUSTS

102086 EXHAUST

(EXHAUST OR EXHAUSTS)

560589 EMISS?

13708 EXHAUST(S)EMISS?

5573299 P/DT

1143361 PY.B>=2006

2732032 JP/PC

L1 219 EXHAUST(S)EMISS? AND P/DT AND PY.B>=2006
AND JP/PC

Use DISPLAY BROWSE to review titles and F-Terms.

=> D BRO

:*TI FTERM

TI Exhaust emission control device [machine translation]

The 3G090 terms appear with this answer.
What themes do they cover?

CLASS

PATENT NO. CLASS PATENT FAMILY CLASSIFICATION CODES

-------------- ----- -----------------------------------

JP 2007009718 FTERM 3G090/AA03; 3G090/AA04; 3G090/AA06;

3G090/BA01; 3G090/CB11; 3G090/CB23;

3G090/EA02; 3G091/AA10; 3G091/AA18;

3G091/AB02; 3G091/AB06; 3G091/AB09;

3G091/AB13; 3G091/BA14; 3G091/CA05;

3G091/CA13; 3G091/CA18; 3G091/HA08;

3G091/HA11; 3G091/HA15; 3G091/HB02;

4D048/AA06; 4D048/AA13; 4D048/AA14;

4D048/AA18; 4D048/AB01; 4D048/AB02;

4D048/AB03; 4D048/AB05; 4D048/AB07;

4D048/AC02; 4D048/BA03Y;4D048/BA06Y;

4D048/BA11Y; 4D048/BA30Y;

4D048/BA31Y; 4D048/BA33Y;

4D048/BA41Y; 4D048/BB02; 4D048/CC25;

4D048/CC32; 4D048/CC33; 4D048/CC61;

4D048/CD05;

Use EXPAND to view this term and any associated terms in the hierarchy.

=> E 3G090+ALL/FTERM

E1 0 BT3 FTCLA/FTERM

FTERM CLASSIFICATION OF THE JAPANESE

PATENT OFFICE

E2 0 BT2 3/FTERM

. Mechanics

E3 8465 BT1 3G/FTERM

. . Motive Machinery

E4 1770 --> 3G090/FTERM

. . . TREATING SOLID CONSTITUENTS OF

EXHAUST GAS

E5 1 NT1 3G090/AA00/FTERM

. . . . Processing method

E6 468 NT2 3G090/AA01/FTERM

. . . . . Having a filter

E7 677 NT3 3G090/AA02/FTERM

. . . . . . Ceramic filter

E8 872 NT4 3G090/AA03/FTERM

. . . . . . . Containing fuel

additives

E79 299 NT2 3G090/EA04/FTERM

. . . . . Related to structural

elements other than those

of the exhaust system

E80 337 NT3 3G090/EA05/FTERM

. . . . . . Turbo-charger

E81 333 NT3 3G090/EA06/FTERM

. . . . . . EGR

E82 194 NT3 3G090/EA07/FTERM

. . . . . . Air intake contraction

valve

E83 12 NT3 3G090/EA08/FTERM

. . . . . . Exhaust intake valve

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Search the 3G090 term and terms associated with it.
The search more than doubles the number of answers.

=> S E4+NT AND PY.B>=2006

1770 3G090+NT/FTERM (80 TERMS)

1143361 PY.B>=2006

L3 487 3G090+NT/FTERM AND PY.B>=2006

Display an answer.

=> D IBIB HIT

ACCESSION NUMBER: 2007:58894 HCAPLUS

TITLE: The inspection method of the

ceramic honeycomb filter

[machine translation]

INVENTOR(S): Watanabe, Kazutoyo

PATENT ASSIGNEE(S): Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Japan

SOURCE: Jpn. Kokai Tokkyo Koho, 10pp.

CODEN: JKXXAF

DOCUMENT TYPE: Patent

LANGUAGE: Japanese

FAMILY ACC. NUM. COUNT: 1

PATENT INFORMATION:

PATENT NO. KIND DATE APPLICATION NO. DATE

------------ ---- ---- ---------------------------

JP 2007010492 A 20070118 JP 2005-191860 20050630 <--

PRIORITY APPLN. INFO.: JP 2005-191860 20050630

CLASS

PATENT NO. CLASS PATENT FAMILY CLASSIFICATION CODES

-------------- ----- -----------------------------------

JP 2007010492 FTERM 2F062/AA42; 2F062/EE07; 2F062/HH00;

2F062/LL03; 3G090/AA02; 3G090/CA00;

3G091/AB13; 3G091/BA07; 3G091/BA13;

3G091/BA39; 3G091/GA06;

3G091/GB17X; 4D058/JA32;

4D058/JA37; 4D058/JA38; 4D058/JB06;

4D058/PA01; 4D058/SA08 <--

Analyze the Patent Assignee (PA) field for active companies.

=> ANA L3 PA

L4 ANALYZE L3 1- PA : 317 TERMS

Display the results.

=> D

L4 ANALYZE L3 1- PA : 317 TERMS

TERM # # OCC # DOC % DOC PA

------ ------- ------ ------ ---------------

1 323 323 18.25 TOYOTA MOTOR CORP JAPAN

2 125 125 7.06 HINO MOTORS LTD JAPAN

3 119 119 6.72 NISSAN MOTOR CO LTD JAPAN

4 78 78 4.41 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI
KAISHA JAPAN

5 73 73 4.12 NGK INSULATORS LTD JAPAN

6 68 68 3.84 MAZUDA MOTOR CORP JAPAN

7 57 57 3.22 MITSUBISHI FUSO TRUCK BUS
CORPORATION JAPAN

8 54 54 3.05 ISUZU MOTORS LTD JAPAN

9 45 45 2.54 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD JAPAN

10 42 42 2.37 HITACHI METALS LTD JAPAN

Additional Resources

The F-term thesaurus was previously discussed in Patent Interchange in the July/August 2006 issue of STNews.

See also the STN Database Summary Sheets for CA/CAplus.

Updated: 7/27/2007 2:23:00 PM