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EP1739740 - Power semiconductor [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 17.05.2013 Database last updated on 13.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	17.05.2013	Refusal of application	published on 19.06.2013 [2013/25]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states HITACHI, LTD. 6-6, Marunouchi 1-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8280 / JP
	[N/P]
Former [2007/01]	For all designated states HITACHI, LTD. 6-6, Marunouchi 1-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8280 / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / Koike, Yoshihiko c/o Hitachi, Ltd. 12F, Marunouchi Ct. Bldg. 6-1, Marunouchi 1-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8220 / JP
	02 / Okubo, Shinji c/o Hitachi Haramachi Electronics Co 10-2, Bentencho 3-chome Hitachi-shi Ibaraki 317-0072 / JP
	03 / Toyoda, Yasushi c/o Hitachi, Ltd. 12F, Marunouchi Ct. Bldg. 6-1, Marunouchi 1-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8220 / JP
	04 / Saito, Katsuaki c/o Hitachi, Ltd. 12F, Marunouchi Ct. Bldg. 6-1, Marunouchi 1-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8220 / JP
	05 / Hayakawa, Seiichi c/o Hitachi, Ltd. 12F, Marunouchi Ct. Bldg. 6-1, Marunouchi 1-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8220 / JP
	[2007/01]
Representative(s)	Strehl Schübel-Hopf & Partner Maximilianstrasse 54 80538 München / DE
	[2007/01]
Application number, filing date	06013397.2	28.06.2006
	[2007/01]
Priority number, date	JP20050190869	30.06.2005 Original published format: JP 2005190869
	[2007/01]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP1739740
	Date:	03.01.2007
	Language:	EN
	[2007/01]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP1739740
	Date:	09.04.2008
	[2008/15]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	07.03.2008
Classification	IPC:	H01L23/26, // H01L23/24, H01L23/31	[2008/15]
	CPC:	H01L23/24 (EP); H01L23/16 (EP); H01L23/3135 (EP); H01L23/3735 (EP); H01L23/49811 (EP); H01L24/37 (EP); (+) H01L24/40 (EP); H01L24/48 (EP); H01L24/49 (EP); H01L24/84 (EP); H01L24/85 (EP); H01L25/072 (EP); H01L2224/0603 (EP); H01L2224/29101 (EP); H01L2224/32225 (EP); H01L2224/37124 (EP); H01L2224/40095 (EP); H01L2224/40225 (EP); H01L2224/40491 (EP); H01L2224/40992 (EP); H01L2224/45014 (EP); H01L2224/45015 (EP); H01L2224/45124 (EP); H01L2224/48091 (EP); H01L2224/48095 (EP); H01L2224/48227 (EP); H01L2224/48455 (EP); H01L2224/48472 (EP); H01L2224/48699 (EP); H01L2224/48992 (EP); H01L2224/48997 (EP); H01L2224/49113 (EP); H01L2224/49171 (EP); H01L2224/73221 (EP); H01L2224/73265 (EP); H01L2224/83801 (EP); H01L2224/84205 (EP); H01L2224/84801 (EP); H01L2224/85205 (EP); H01L2224/8592 (EP); H01L24/29 (EP); H01L24/45 (EP); H01L24/73 (EP); H01L2924/00014 (EP); H01L2924/01005 (EP); H01L2924/01006 (EP); H01L2924/01013 (EP); H01L2924/01014 (EP); H01L2924/01028 (EP); H01L2924/01029 (EP); H01L2924/01033 (EP); H01L2924/01042 (EP); H01L2924/01078 (EP); H01L2924/01082 (EP); H01L2924/014 (EP); H01L2924/10253 (EP); H01L2924/1305 (EP); H01L2924/13055 (EP); H01L2924/15787 (EP); H01L2924/181 (EP); H01L2924/30105 (EP); H01L2924/351 (EP) (-)
	C-Set:	H01L2224/29101, H01L2924/014 (EP); H01L2224/37124, H01L2924/00014 (EP); H01L2224/45014, H01L2224/45124, H01L2924/00012 (EP); H01L2224/45015, H01L2924/2076 (EP); (+) H01L2224/45124, H01L2924/00014 (EP); H01L2224/48091, H01L2924/00014 (EP); H01L2224/48095, H01L2924/00014 (EP); H01L2224/48472, H01L2224/48091, H01L2924/00 (EP); H01L2224/48472, H01L2224/48095, H01L2924/00 (EP); H01L2224/48472, H01L2224/48227, H01L2924/00 (EP); H01L2224/48472, H01L2224/48227, H01L2924/00012 (EP); H01L2224/48992, H01L2224/48455 (EP); H01L2224/49171, H01L2224/48227, H01L2924/00 (EP); H01L2224/49171, H01L2224/48472, H01L2924/00 (EP); H01L2224/73221, H01L2224/40225, H01L2224/48227, H01L2924/00 (EP); H01L2224/73265, H01L2224/32225, H01L2224/48227, H01L2924/00012 (EP); H01L2224/83801, H01L2924/00014 (EP); H01L2224/84205, H01L2924/00014 (EP); H01L2224/85205, H01L2224/45124, H01L2924/00 (EP); H01L2224/8592, H01L2924/0665 (EP); H01L2224/8592, H01L2924/0695 (EP); H01L2224/8592, H01L2924/0715 (EP); H01L2924/00014, H01L2224/05599 (EP); H01L2924/00014, H01L2224/45014, H01L2924/206 (EP); H01L2924/00014, H01L2224/73221 (EP); H01L2924/00014, H01L2224/78, H01L2224/48227, H01L2924/00012 (EP); H01L2924/00014, H01L2224/85399 (EP); H01L2924/1305, H01L2924/00 (EP); H01L2924/181, H01L2924/00012 (EP); H01L2924/3512, H01L2924/00 (EP); H01L2924/351, H01L2924/00 (EP) (-)
	Former IPC [2007/01]	H01L23/26
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, SE [2008/51]
Former [2007/01]	AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR
Title	German:	Leistungshalbleiter	[2007/01]
	English:	Power semiconductor	[2007/01]
	French:	Semiconducteur à puissance	[2007/01]
Examination procedure	31.03.2008	Examination requested [2008/20]
	30.05.2008	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	10.10.2008	Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s)
	19.11.2008	Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DK, EE, ES, FI, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, NL, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, TR
	09.12.2008	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	12.03.2010	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	22.07.2010	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	13.11.2012	Application refused, date of legal effect [2013/25]
	13.11.2012	Date of oral proceedings
	28.01.2013	Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
	29.01.2013	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2013/25]
Divisional application(s)	The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 30.05.2008
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	25.06.2008	Renewal fee patent year 03
	18.06.2009	Renewal fee patent year 04
	31.03.2010	Renewal fee patent year 05
	28.06.2011	Renewal fee patent year 06
	31.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 07
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Documents cited:	Search	[A]JPS5821850 (MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP) [A] 1-8 * abstract *;
		[A]JPS5850759 (NIPPON ELECTRIC CO) [A] 1-8 * abstract *;
		[A]EP0354056 (SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LAB [JP]) [A] 1-8 * figure 4 *;
		[A]US5525839 (SHU WILLIAM K [US]) [A] 1-8 * figure 3 *;
		[A]DE19723202 (LG SEMICON CO LTD [KR]) [A] 1-8* figure 3D *;
		[X]US6353258 (INOUE HIROKAZU [JP], et al) [X] 1-8 * column 12, line 40 - column 13, line 10; figure 4 *
	by applicant	JPS5850759
		US5525839
		US6353258

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