Empty dashed outlines are uncollected periods, not zero. Dashed bars have partial name or date coverage.
Company overviews, observations and reading samples are verified against Chinese sources and shown in Chinese; statistics, charts and controls are localized.
01Key figures
Applications
3,728
By application number; publication and grant count once
Invention
1,788
48% of applications
Utility model
1,940
52% of applications
Patent families
3,693
By the source family ID
Green technology
79.3%
CPC Y02 tag, among documents with CPC
Concentration
0.61HHI
Sum of squared field shares; higher is more concentrated
INSIGHT 01Fact
77%
77% of applications are in Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
2,856 applications in this field, 2,730 of them in IPC H01M (Batteries, electrochemical cells) — the main axis of the portfolio.
Method: Field applications ÷ applications with IPC
INSIGHT 02Fact
24%
24% involve manufacturing and inspection
Measurement, machine tools, handling and chemical engineering together reach 887, mostly production-line, equipment and inspection filings.
Method: Four fields added ÷ all applications (fields may overlap)
INSIGHT 03Fact
52%
Utility models are 52%
1,940 utility models and 1,788 inventions. Structural and tooling improvements are often protected faster as utility models.
Method: Utility model documents ÷ all documents
02Technology landscape
3,728 applications with IPC codes are mapped to 35 fields using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance; area is the number of applications. Select a tile to see its IPC subclasses. An application can belong to several fields.
Electrical engineering
Instruments
Chemistry
Mechanical engineering
03Rhythm
Publications per month in each field; brighter cells mean more. It shows which directions surge in particular months.
Cells count publications only within the collected names and dates. Missing periods are not shown; the company portfolio is incomplete.
Technology field
24-01
24-02
24-03
24-04
24-05
24-06
24-07
24-08
24-09
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
225
211
240
274
335
275
421
521
354
Measurement
24
26
61
40
53
27
48
62
46
Transport
16
21
12
19
27
41
28
34
17
Machine tools
13
14
25
17
30
12
35
28
32
Handling
12
14
23
12
16
15
36
34
20
Computer technology
15
15
19
17
16
10
13
15
13
Chemical engineering
6
3
13
10
14
12
19
19
16
Surface technology, coating
5
5
11
7
15
11
9
19
18
Multi-year evolution · With a longer collection window, this becomes a yearly view that marks the fastest-growing and shrinking fields.
04Strategy profile
Four reproducible structural ratios, with the other published companies on the same scale. Entity scopes and windows can differ, so read relative positions only — this is not a ranking.
Concentration
0.61
CATL
BOE
BYD
Huawei
Midea
0.000.70
Position 1 of 5 published companies.
Method: Sum of squared field shares
Utility model share
52%
CATL
BOE
BYD
Huawei
Midea
0%60%
Position 1 of 5 published companies.
Method: Utility model documents ÷ all documents
Green technology share
79%
CATL
BOE
BYD
Huawei
Midea
0%91%
Position 1 of 5 published companies.
Method: Documents with CPC Y02 ÷ documents with CPC
Manufacturing and inspection share
24%
CATL
BOE
BYD
Huawei
Midea
0%27%
Position 1 of 5 published companies.
Method: Applications in measurement, chemical engineering, handling and machine tools ÷ all applications
05Collaboration
Organisations that filed jointly with the reviewed entities; line weight is the number of joint applications. Gold marks possibly related entities whose names carry the group's trade name; blue marks external partners.
CATL3,728
NINGDE SHIDAI SHANGHAI INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD72
NINGDE SHIDAI RUNZHI SOFTWARE TECH CO LTD54
NINGDE CONTEMPORARY FUTURE ENERGY SHANGHAI RES INSTITUTE CO LTD28
SHENZHEN TIMES FUTURE ENERGY TECH CO LTD18
CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LTD JIANGSU6
GONGYI VAN RES YIHUI COMPOSITE MATERIAL CO LTD3
SICHUAN TIMES NEW ENERGY TECH CO LTD3
UNIV JINAN3
GUANGDONG RUIQING TIMES NEW ENERGY TECH CO LTD2
NINGDE JIAOCHENG TIMES NEW ENERGY TECH CO LTD2
NINGDE SHIDAI SHANGHAI INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD72Possibly related · unreviewed
NINGDE SHIDAI RUNZHI SOFTWARE TECH CO LTD54Possibly related · unreviewed
NINGDE CONTEMPORARY FUTURE ENERGY SHANGHAI RES INSTITUTE CO LTD28Possibly related · unreviewed
SHENZHEN TIMES FUTURE ENERGY TECH CO LTD18External partner
CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LTD JIANGSU6Possibly related · unreviewed
GONGYI VAN RES YIHUI COMPOSITE MATERIAL CO LTD3External partner
SICHUAN TIMES NEW ENERGY TECH CO LTD3External partner
UNIV JINAN3External partner
GUANGDONG RUIQING TIMES NEW ENERGY TECH CO LTD2External partner
NINGDE JIAOCHENG TIMES NEW ENERGY TECH CO LTD2External partner
“Possibly related” only means the name contains the group's trade name; ownership has not been verified, and their own filings are not counted here.
06Observations
Written by editors after reading the patent texts and company materials. Verified facts and inferences are labeled, each with evidence and limits.
Figures from annual reports or official sites. Regions, dates and counting units differ, so they are never merged with or compared to this page's statistics.
Positive pole piece, electrode assembly, battery monomer, battery and electric equipment
NINGDE CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECH CO LTD
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
2024-09-27
Titles come from the source bibliography. Select a number to read the full document on this site.
08Method and sources
Counting units
Publications are deduplicated by publication number; applications by application number, so a publication and its grant count once; families by the source family ID. Technology fields are derived automatically from IPC codes using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance (March 2026), without manual or AI labeling.
This page does not count patents in force: a grant document does not mean the right is still valid. Legal status and current owners must be checked with CNIPA.
Entity scope
These statistics use only the applicant names and publication dates collected for this snapshot. They do not represent the full company or group portfolio.
Applicant names included in these statistics
NINGDE CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECH CO LTD
Reviewed names not covered
CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO LTD · 宁德时代新能源科技股份有限公司
Current entity configuration and review evidence
The reviewed entities and aliases below describe the current company configuration. Only names listed above are covered by this snapshot.
宁德时代新能源科技股份有限公司
Configured aliases: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd · NINGDE CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECH CO LTD
同一公开号 CN220406062U 的 EPO 标准名与 Google Patents 原始申请人交叉核对;不证明当前权属或申请时的集团关系。