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| DF | CLASS NOTES | |
| 100 | DF | HIGH TEMPERATURE (Tc GREATER THAN 30 K) SUPERCONDUCTOR MATERIAL (I.E., ELEMENT, COMPOUND, OR COMPOSITION), PER SE |
| 110 | DF | .~ Having Tc greater than or equal to 150 K |
| 120 | DF | .~ Thallium (Tl) containing |
| 121 | DF | .~ Bismuth (Bi) containing |
| 122 | DF | .~ Organic polymer containing |
| 123 | DF | .~ Halogen [i.e., fluorine (Fl), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), astatine (At)] containing |
| 124 | DF | .~ Free metal containing |
| 125 | DF | .~ Copper (Cu) and oxygen (O) containing |
| 126 | DF | .~.~ Containing three atoms of copper to between six and seven atoms of oxygen [e.g., YCu3O(7-@), LaCu3O(6+*), etc.] |
| 150 | DF | HIGH TEMPERATURE (Tc GREATER THAN 30 K) DEVICES, SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, COM- PONENTS, OR STOCK, OR PROCESSES OF USING |
| 160 | DF | .~ Measuring or testing system or device |
| 161 | DF | .~.~ Bolometer |
| 162 | DF | .~.~ Magnetic field sensing system or device (e.g., SQUID, etc.) |
| 163 | DF | .~ Significant cryogenic refrigeration system having superconductor component as part of the system or having superconductor device or material to be cooled present therewith (e.g., Peltier effect device, etc.) |
| 164 | DF | .~ Projectile or launching device or system |
| 165 | DF | .~ System, device, or component utilizing suspension of superconducting particulate material in liquid (e.g., seal, pump, etc.) |
| 166 | DF | .~ Dynamoelectric machine (e.g., motor, generator, etc.), rotational system or device (e.g., clutch, rotor, bearing, etc.), or components thereof |
| 170 | DF | .~ Information processing (e.g., logic circuits, computer, etc.) or information storage or retrieval system, device, or component (i.e., both dynamic and static) |
| 171 | DF | .~.~ Recording by magnetism, magnetic record carriers, or recording head arrangements |
| 180 | DF | .~ Device producing stimulated emission (e.g., laser, maser, etc.) |
| 181 | DF | .~ Photoconductive, light transmissive, light emissive, or light responsive device or component |
| 182 | DF | .~.~ Device or arrangement the operation of which is modified by changing optical properties (e.g., reflectivity, transmission, etc.) of superconduc- tive material |
| 183 | DF | .~.~ Having optical waveguide |
| 190 | DF | .~ Josephson junction, per se (e.g., point contact, bridge, barrier junction, SIS, SNS, SSS, etc.) or Josephson junction with only terminals or connect |
| 191 | DF | .~ Semiconductor thin film device or thin film electric solid-state device or system (i.e., active or passive) |
| 192 | DF | .~.~ Capacitor or including capacitor |
| 193 | DF | .~.~ Superconducting transistor (e.g., Josephson transistor, etc.) |
| 200 | DF | .~ Electric discharge tube |
| 201 | DF | .~ Antenna |
| 202 | DF | .~ Electric communication system containing transmitter or receiver of pulse, digital, or electromagnetic radio, television, or radar wave form |
| 203 | DF | .~ Electroacoustic transducer |
| 204 | DF | .~ Device or system with electronic circuitry for generation of oscillations |
| 210 | DF | .~ High frequency waveguides, resonators, electrical networks, or other devices of the waveguide type (e.g., phase shifters, cavity filters, etc.) |
| 211 | DF | .~ Electrical energy storage device (e.g., accumulator, etc.), inductor, transformer, magnetic switch, magnetic ring, sphere, coil, or magnetic arrangement |
| 212 | DF | .~.~ Truncated hollow spherical or truncated cylindrical flux source bodies (e.g., magic hemisphere, magic half-ring, etc.) |
| 213 | DF | .~.~ Noncoiled hollow magnetic arrangement |
| 220 | DF | .~ Superconductor having metal connect, pad, connect structure, or patterned superconductor circuit, per se |
| 230 | DF | .~ Superconducting wire, tape, cable, or fiber, per se |
| 231 | DF | .~.~ Having plural superconducting wire or superconducting fiber component (e.g., multifilament wire, etc.) |
| 232 | DF | .~.~ Having nonsuperconducting core |
| 233 | DF | .~ Superconducting layer and organic or free carbon layer (i.e., adjacent or nonadjacent to superconductor) |
| 234 | DF | .~ Superconductor next to superconductor |
| 235 | DF | .~ Superconductor layer and one semiconducting or silicon (Si) layer |
| 236 | DF | .~ Superconductor layer next to free metal containing layer |
| 237 | DF | .~ Superconductor next to two or more nonsuperconductive layers |
| 238 | DF | .~ Superconductor next to layer containing nonsuperconducting ceramic composition or inorganic compound (e.g., metal oxide, metal nitride, etc.) |
| 239 | DF | .~ Substrate for supporting superconductor |
| 300 | DF | PROCESSES OF PRODUCING OR TREATING HIGH TEMPERATURE (Tc GREATER THAN 30 K) SUPERCONDUCTOR MATERIAL OR SUPERCONDUCTOR CONTAINING PRODUCTS OR PRECURSORS THEREOF |
| 310 | DF | .~ With measuring or testing of superconducting properties |
| 320 | DF | .~ Producing lattice imperfection flux pinning sites or increasing critical current density through particle bombardment, electromagnetic wave energy, or using fissionable material |
| 325 | DF | .~ Utilizing particle (e.g., electron beam, ion, etc.) bombardment or electromagnetic wave energy (e.g., laser, etc.) treatment of selected regions to form conducting or insulating areas |
| 329 | DF | .~ Producing Josephson junction, per se (e.g., point contact, bridge, barrier junction, SIS, SNS, SSS, etc.) |
| 330 | DF | .~ Semiconductor device or thin film electric solid-state device manufacture |
| 400 | DF | .~ Using magnetic field (e.g., for aligning, texturizing, classifying, etc.) |
| 401 | DF | .~ Using sonic, ultrasonic, or vibrational energy (e.g., shock processing, vibration compacting, etc.) |
| 410 | DF | .~ With material removal by etching, laser ablation, or mechanical abrasion |
| 411 | DF | .~.~ Utilizing plasma etching or sputter etching |
| 412 | DF | .~.~ Laser ablation |
| 413 | DF | .~.~ Utilizing mask (e.g., photoresist, etc.) |
| 420 | DF | .~ With glass forming, working, or treating |
| 425 | DF | .~ Producing powder or short fiber (i.e., less than 15 cm) by spraying, dropping, or slinging of solution, suspension, or melt (e.g., spray-drying, atomizing, etc.) |
| 430 | DF | .~ Process of making wire, tape, cable, coil, or fiber |
| 431 | DF | .~.~ Making multifilament |
| 432 | DF | .~.~ Isostatic pressing (e.g., HIP, hydrostatic pressing, etc.) |
| 433 | DF | .~.~ With metal deforming, metal wrapping, or metal coiling |
| 434 | DF | .~.~ With coating |
| 440 | DF | .~ Utilizing sol or gel |
| 441 | DF | .~ With precipitating from solution |
| 445 | DF | .~ Using an organometallic intermediate (e.g., ligand, chelate, clathrate, etc.) |
| 446 | DF | .~.~ Including coating step |
| 447 | DF | .~.~.~ Vapor deposition |
| 450 | DF | .~ With melting |
| 451 | DF | .~.~ With zone melting, zone solidification, or seed pulling |
| 452 | DF | .~.~ And coating or impregnating with melt |
| 460 | DF | .~ Producing fullerene (i.e., C60) type superconductor or analog thereof |
| 461 | DF | .~ Producing halogen [i.e., fluorine (Fl), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), or astatine (At)], containing superconductor |
| 470 | DF | .~ Coating |
| 471 | DF | .~.~ Printing (e.g., screen printing, etc.) or application with solid coating means |
| 472 | DF | .~.~ Electrolytic or electrophoretic coating |
| 473 | DF | .~.~ Vapor deposition |
| 474 | DF | .~.~.~ Laser evaporative (i.e., ablative) coating |
| 475 | DF | .~.~.~ Sputtering |
| 476 | DF | .~.~.~.~ RF sputtering (e.g., 13.56 MHz, etc.) |
| 477 | DF | .~.~.~ Using plasma |
| 480 | DF | .~ Utilizing electromagnetic wave energy, ion, or plasma |
| 481 | DF | .~ Including exothermic reaction or ignition of binder |
| 482 | DF | .~ Treating with high pressure oxygen |
| 483 | DF | .~ Utilizing fluid bed |
| 490 | DF | .~ Shaping or consolidating (e.g., pelletizing, compacting, etc.) |
| 491 | DF | .~.~ Utilizing isostatic pressure (e.g., HIP, etc.) or specified pressure |
| 492 | DF | .~.~ Bismuth (Bi) or thallium (Tl) containing |
| 500 | DF | .~ Heating, annealing, or sintering |
| 501 | DF | .~.~ Bismuth (Bi) or thallium (Tl) containing |
| 510 | DF | PRECURSOR OF HIGH TEMPERATURE (Tc GREATER THAN 30 K) SUPERCONDUCTOR MATERIAL OR STOCK, PER SE, OR PROCESS OF PRODUCING THE PRECURSOR |
| 511 | DF | .~ Target for coating |
| 512 | DF | .~.~ Organometallic (e.g., ligand, clathrate, oxalate, etc.) |
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| * | DD | A. Involving High Temperature Material (Tc above 30 K) |
| 700 | DF | High Tc (ABOVE 30 K) SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICE, ARTICLE, OR STRUCTURED STOCK |
| 701 | DF | .~ Coated or thin film device (i.e., active or passive) |
| 702 | DF | .~.~ Josephson junction present |
| 703 | DF | .~.~ Microelectronic device with superconducting conduction line |
| 704 | DF | .~ Wire, fiber, or cable |
| 705 | DF | .~.~ Magnetic coil |
| 706 | DF | .~ Contact pads or leads bonded to superconductor |
| 725 | DF | PROCESS OF MAKING OR TREATING HIGH Tc (ABOVE 30 K) SUPERCONDUCTING SHAPED MATERIAL, ARTICLE, OR DEVICE |
| 726 | DF | .~ Measuring or testing of superconducting property |
| 727 | DF | .~ Using magnetic field |
| 728 | DF | .~ Etching |
| 729 | DF | .~ Growing single crystal (e.g., epitaxy, bulk) |
| 730 | DF | .~ Vacuum treating or coating |
| 731 | DF | .~.~ Sputter coating |
| 732 | DF | .~.~ Evaporative coating with superconducting material |
| 733 | DF | .~ Rapid solidification (e.g., quenching, gas-atomizing, melt-spinning, roller-quenching) |
| 734 | DF | .~ From organometallic precursors (e.g., acetylacetonates) |
| 735 | DF | .~.~ By sol-gel process |
| 736 | DF | .~ From free metal precursors |
| 737 | DF | .~ From inorganic salt precursors (e.g., nitrates) |
| 738 | DF | .~.~ By precipitating |
| 739 | DF | .~ Molding, coating, shaping, or casting of superconducting material |
| 740 | DF | .~.~ To form wire or fiber |
| 741 | DF | .~.~ Coating or casting onto a substrate (e.g., screen printing, tape casting) |
| 742 | DF | .~ Annealing |
| 775 | DF | HIGH Tc (ABOVE 30 K) SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIAL |
| 776 | DF | .~ Containing transition metal oxide with rare earth or alkaline earth |
| 777 | DF | .~.~ Lanthanum (La)-(e.g., La2Cu04) |
| 778 | DF | .~.~.~ Alkaline earth (i.e., Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra)- [e.g., La(2-x)Ba(x)CuO4] |
| 779 | DF | .~.~ Other rare earth (i.e., Sc,Y,Ce,Pr,Nd,Pm,Sm,Eu,Gd,Tb,Dy,Ho,Er,Tm,Yb,Lu) and alkaline earth (i.e., Ca,Sr,Ba,Ra) |
| 780 | DF | .~.~.~ Yttrium(Y) and barium(Ba)-(e.g., YBa2Cu307) |
| 781 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Noble metal (i.e., Ag, Au, Os, Ir, Pt, Ru, Rh, Pd) or chromium(Cr), manganese(Mn), iron(Fe), cobalt(Co), or nickel(Ni)-[e.g., YBa2Cu(3-x)Fe(x)O(y)] |
| 782 | DF | .~.~ Bismuth(Bi)-(e.g., BiCaSrCu0) |
| 783 | DF | .~.~ Thallium(Tl)-(e.g., Tl2CaBaCu308) |
| 784 | DF | .~ Bismuth(Bi)-(e.g., BaKBi0) |
| 785 | DF | .~ Composition containing superconducting material and diverse nonsuperconducting material |
| 950 | DF | MANUFACTURING SYSTEM OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING HIGH TEMPERATURE (I.E., Tc GREATER THAN 30 K) SUPERCONDUCTOR PRODUCT, DEVICE, ARTICLE OR STOCK (I.E., WHICH SYSTEM OR APPARATUS DOES NOT ITSELF CONTAIN A SUPERCONDUCTING COMPONENT) |
| 951 | DF | NPL PLUS FP HIGH TEMPERATURE (Tc GREATER THAN 30 K) SUPERCONDUCTOR: MATERIAL (I.E., ELEMENT, COMPOUND, OR COMPOSITION) DEVICES, SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, COMPONENTS, STOCK, PROCESSES OF USING SAME, OR PROCESSES OF PRODUCING OR TREATING HIGH TEMPERATURE (Tc GREATER THAN 30 K) SUPERCONDUCTOR MATERIAL OR SUPERCONDUCTOR CONTAINING PRODUCTS OR PRECURSORS THEREOF |
| * | DD | B. Involving Low Temperature Superconductors (Tc at or below 30 K) |
| 800 | DF | MATERIAL, PER SE, PROCESS OF MAKING SAME |
| 801 | DF | .~ Composition: (Classes 75, 252, 501) |
| 802 | DF | .~.~ Organic |
| 803 | DF | .~.~ Magnetic |
| 804 | DF | .~.~ Amorphous alloy |
| 805 | DF | .~.~ Alloy or metallic: (Class 420,420/901) |
| 806 | DF | .~.~.~ Niobium base (Nb) |
| 807 | DF | .~.~ Powder: (Class 75) |
| 808 | DF | .~.~ Liquid crystal: (Class 252) |
| 809 | DF | .~.~ Ceramic: (Class 501) |
| 810 | DF | .~ Compound: (Class 423) |
| 811 | DF | .~.~ Organic: (Classes 520-570) |
| 812 | DF | .~ Stock: (Class 428, 428/930) |
| 813 | DF | .~.~ Wire, tape, or film |
| 814 | DF | .~.~ Treated metal: (Class 148/400+) |
| 815 | DF | .~ Process of making, per se |
| 816 | DF | .~.~ Sputtering, including coating, forming, or etching (Class 204/192.24) |
| 817 | DF | .~.~.~ Forming Josephson element |
| 818 | DF | .~.~ Coating: (Classes 204, 427/62) |
| 819 | DF | .~.~.~ Vapor deposition |
| 820 | DF | .~.~.~ And etching |
| 821 | DF | .~.~.~ Wire |
| 822 | DF | .~.~ Shaping: (Classes 148, 264) |
| 823 | DF | .~.~ Powder metallurgy: (Class 419) |
| 824 | DF | .~.~ Battery, thermo or photo-electric: (Class 136) |
| 825 | DF | APPARATUS, PER SE, DEVICE, PER SE, OR PROCESS OF MAKING OR OPERATING SAME |
| 826 | DF | .~ Coating: (Class 118) |
| 827 | DF | .~ Code converter: (Class 340) |
| 828 | DF | .~ Modulator: (Class 332), demodulator, or detector: (Class 329) |
| 829 | DF | .~ Electrical computer or data processing system (Class 364) |
| 830 | DF | .~ Electrical pulse counter, pulse divider, or shift register: (Class 377) |
| 831 | DF | .~ Static information storage system or device: (Class 365, 365/160) |
| 832 | DF | .~.~ Josephson junction type: (Class 365/162) |
| 833 | DF | .~.~ Thin film type: (Class 365/161) |
| 834 | DF | .~.~.~ Plural (e.g., memory matrix, etc.): (Class 365/161) |
| 835 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Content addressed (i.e., associative memory type): (Class 365/49, 161) |
| 836 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Location addressed (i.e., word organized memory type: (Class 365/161) |
| 837 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Random access (i.e., bit organized memory type): (Class 365/161) |
| 838 | DF | .~.~ Plural (e.g., memory matrix, etc.): (Class 365/160) |
| 839 | DF | .~.~.~ Content addressed (i.e., associative memory type): (Class 365/160) |
| 840 | DF | .~.~.~ Location addressed (i.e., word organized memory type): (Class 365/160) |
| 841 | DF | .~.~.~ Random access (i.e., bit organized memory type): (Class 365/160) |
| 842 | DF | .~ Measuring and testing: (Classes 73, 324, 356, and 374) |
| 843 | DF | .~.~ Electrical: (Class 324) |
| 844 | DF | .~.~.~ Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system or device: (Class 324) |
| 845 | DF | .~.~.~ Magnetometer: (Class 324/248) |
| 846 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Using superconductive quantum interference device (i.e., SQUID): (Class 324/248) |
| 847 | DF | .~.~ Thermal: (Class 374) |
| 848 | DF | .~ Radiant energy application: (Class 250) |
| 849 | DF | .~.~ Infrared responsive electric signaling: (Class 250/338+) |
| 850 | DF | .~ Protective circuit: (Class 361/19) |
| 851 | DF | .~ Control circuit for electromagnetic device: (Class 361/141) |
| 852 | DF | .~ Electric motor control: (Class 318) |
| 853 | DF | .~ Oscillator: (Class 331) |
| 854 | DF | .~.~ With solid-state active element: (Class 331/107S) |
| 855 | DF | .~ Amplifier: (Class 330) |
| 856 | DF | .~ Electrical transmission or interconnection system: (Class 307) |
| 857 | DF | .~.~ Nonlinear solid-state device system or circuit: (Class 307/200+) |
| 858 | DF | .~.~.~ Digital logic: (Class 307/476) |
| 859 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Function of AND, OR, NAND, NOR or NOT: (Class 307/462) |
| 860 | DF | .~.~.~ Gating (i.e., switching) circuit: (Class 307/245) |
| 861 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With Josephson junction: (Class 307/245) |
| 862 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With thin film device: (Class 307/245) |
| 863 | DF | .~.~.~ Stable state circuit for signal shaping, converting, or generating: (Class 307/277) |
| 864 | DF | .~.~.~.~ With Josephson junction: (Class 307/277) |
| 865 | DF | .~.~.~ With Josephson junction: (Class 307/306) |
| 866 | DF | .~ Wave transmission line, network, waveguide, or microwave storage device: (Class 333/99S) |
| 867 | DF | .~ Electric power conversion system: (Class 363) |
| 868 | DF | .~.~ Current conversion: (Class 363/14) |
| 869 | DF | .~ Power supply, regulation, or energy storage system: (Class 323) |
| 870 | DF | .~.~ Including transformer or inductor: (Class 323/360) |
| 871 | DF | .~ Magnetic lens: (Class 250/396) |
| 872 | DF | .~ Magnetic field shield: (Class 307/91) |
| 873 | DF | .~ Active solid-state device: (Class 257) |
| 874 | DF | .~.~ With Josephson junction (e.g., SQUID, etc.): (Class 257) |
| 875 | DF | .~.~ Combined with housing and cryogenic fluid cooling: (Class 257) |
| 876 | DF | .~ Electrical generator or motor structure: (Class 310) |
| 877 | DF | .~.~ Rotary dynamoelectric type: (Class 310/40+) |
| 878 | DF | .~.~.~ With cooling: (Class 310/52+) |
| 879 | DF | .~ Magnet or electromagnet: (Class 335/216) |
| 880 | DF | .~ Inductor: (Class 336/DIG 1) |
| 881 | DF | .~ Resistance device responsive to magnetic field: (Class 338/32S) |
| 882 | DF | .~ Circuit maker or breaker: (Class 200) |
| 883 | DF | .~ Housing and mounting assembly with plural diverse electrical components: (Class 361/331+) |
| 884 | DF | .~ Conductor: (Class 174) |
| 885 | DF | .~.~ Cooling, or feeding, circulating, or distributing fluid; in superconductive apparatus: (Class 174/15CA) |
| 886 | DF | .~.~.~ Cable: (Class 174/15S) |
| 887 | DF | .~.~ Conductor structure: (Class 174/126S and 128S) |
| 888 | DF | .~ Refrigeration: (Class 62) |
| 889 | DF | .~.~ Utilizing rare earth material |
| 890 | DF | .~.~ Heat pipe device |
| 891 | DF | .~.~ Magnetic or electrical effect cooling |
| 892 | DF | .~.~ Magnetic device cooling |
| 893 | DF | .~.~.~ Spectrometer |
| 894 | DF | .~.~ Cyclic cryogenic system (e.g., Sterling, Gifford-McMahon, etc.) |
| 895 | DF | .~.~.~ With regenerative heat exchanger |
| 896 | DF | .~.~ Special refrigerant compound |
| 897 | DF | .~.~ Cryogenic media transfer |
| 898 | DF | .~.~ Cryogenic envelope |
| 899 | DF | .~.~ Method of cooling |
| 900 | DF | .~ Heat exchange: (Class 165) |
| 901 | DF | .~.~ Heat pipe |
| 902 | DF | .~ Railway (e.g., rapid transit, etc.): (Class 104) |
| 903 | DF | .~.~ Suspension (e.g., magnetic, electrodynamic, etc.) |
| 904 | DF | .~.~.~ Guidance means (i.e., in addition to the track) |
| 905 | DF | .~.~.~ Motor structure |
| 906 | DF | .~.~.~ Switching device (i.e., electrical not railway stock diverting) |
| 907 | DF | .~.~.~ Support structure |
| 908 | DF | .~.~.~ Method of operation |
| 909 | DF | .~ Power plant: (Class 60) |
| 910 | DF | .~ Pump: (Class 417) |
| 911 | DF | .~ Fluid reaction surface (i.e., impeller): (Class 416) |
| 912 | DF | .~ Metal founding: (Class 164) |
| 913 | DF | .~.~ Casting process |
| 914 | DF | .~.~.~ Using magnetic or electric field |
| 915 | DF | .~.~.~ Making composite product |
| 916 | DF | .~.~.~ Continuous casting |
| 917 | DF | .~ Mechanically manufacturing superconductor: (Classes 29, 72, and 228) |
| 918 | DF | .~.~ With metallurgical heat treating |
| 919 | DF | .~.~.~ Reactive formation of superconducting intermetallic compound |
| 920 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Utilizing diffusion barrier |
| 921 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Metal working prior to treating |
| 922 | DF | .~.~ Making Josephson junction device |
| 923 | DF | .~.~ Making device having semiconductive component (e.g., integrated circuit, etc.) |
| 924 | DF | .~.~ Making superconductive magnet or coil |
| 925 | DF | .~.~ Making superconductive joint |
| 926 | DF | .~.~ Mechanically joining superconductive members |
| 927 | DF | .~.~ Metallurgically bonding superconductive members |
| 928 | DF | .~.~ Metal deforming |
| 929 | DF | .~.~.~ By extruding |
| 930 | DF | .~.~.~ By drawing |
| 931 | DF | .~ Classifying, separating, and assorting solids using magnetism: (Class 209) |
| 932 | DF | .~.~ Separating diverse particulates |
| 933 | DF | .~.~.~ In liquid slurry |