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EP About this file: EP1069319

EP1069319 - Pilot operated directional control valve having position detecting function [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  16.09.2005
Database last updated on 31.08.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip27.07.2007Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): IT
published on 29.08.2007  [2007/35]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
SMC CORPORATION
16-4, Shinbashi 1-chome Minato-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [2001/03]For all designated states
SMC CORPORATION
16-4, Shinbashi 1-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Hayashi, Bunya c/o SMC Corp.
Tsukuba Tech. Cent., 4-2-2, Kinunodai
Yawara-mura, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki / JP
02 / Ishikawa, Makoto c/o SMC Corp.
Tsukuba Tech. Cent., 4-2-2, Kinunodai
Yawara-mura, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki / JP
 [2001/03]
Representative(s)Findlay, Alice Rosemary
Marks & Clerk LLP
90 Long Acre
London
WC2E 9RA / GB
[N/P]
Former [2001/03]Findlay, Alice Rosemary
Lloyd Wise, Tregear & Co., Commonwealth House, 1-19 New Oxford Street
London WC1A 1LW / GB
Application number, filing date00305301.423.06.2000
[2001/03]
Priority number, dateJP1999019928013.07.1999         Original published format: JP 19928099
[2001/03]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP1069319
Date:17.01.2001
Language:EN
[2001/03]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP1069319
Date:08.05.2002
[2002/19]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP1069319
Date:10.11.2004
Language:EN
[2004/46]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP26.03.2002
ClassificationIPC:F15B13/04, F15B15/28
[2001/03]
CPC:
F15B15/2807 (EP,US); F16K13/00 (KR); F15B13/0402 (EP,US);
F15B2013/0409 (EP,US); Y10T137/8242 (EP,US); Y10T137/8326 (EP,US);
Y10T137/86614 (EP,US); Y10T137/8663 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [2003/05]
Former [2001/03]AT,  BE,  CH,  CY,  DE,  DK,  ES,  FI,  FR,  GB,  GR,  IE,  IT,  LI,  LU,  MC,  NL,  PT,  SE 
TitleGerman:Vorgesteuertes Wegeventil mit Positionsermittlung[2001/03]
English:Pilot operated directional control valve having position detecting function[2001/03]
French:Distributeur pneumatique piloté avec détection de la position[2001/03]
Examination procedure06.07.2000Examination requested  [2001/03]
31.01.2003Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
05.08.2003Reply to a communication from the examining division
10.03.2004Communication of intention to grant the patent
07.09.2004Fee for grant paid
07.09.2004Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)11.08.2005No opposition filed within time limit [2005/44]
Fees paidRenewal fee
12.06.2002Renewal fee patent year 03
12.06.2003Renewal fee patent year 04
14.06.2004Renewal fee patent year 05
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipFR10.11.2004
IT10.11.2004
GB23.06.2005
[2007/35]
Former [2006/35]FR10.11.2004
GB23.06.2005
Former [2006/31]FR10.11.2004
Documents cited:Search[YA]JPS588806  ;
 [A]JPS61290287  ;
 [A]GB2078951  (BRITISH PETROLEUM CO);
 [DA]JPH0266784U  (NN);
 [A]US5331152  (FENTON STEPHEN P [GB]);
 [A]US5502380  (SITTLER FRED C [US], et al);
 [XY]US5819783  (BLATT JOHN A [US], et al) [X] 1,6,7 * column 8, line 44 - column 9, line 5; figure 2 * [Y] 4,8
 [YA]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19830405), vol. 007, no. 081, Database accession no. (M - 205), & JP58008806 A 19830119 (SEKOH GIKEN) [Y] 4,8 * abstract * [A] 2,3
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19870522), vol. 011, no. 158, Database accession no. (M - 591), & JP61290287 A 19861220 (TOYOOKI KOGYO) [A] 1 * abstract *
by applicantJPS63144027U
 JPH0266784U
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