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EP2766972
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| EP2766972 - A MULTILEVEL CONVERTER AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MULTILEVEL CONVERTER INCLUDING BALANCING CELL VOLTAGES [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 05.08.2016 Database last updated on 09.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 19.10.2018 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 21.11.2018 [2018/47] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states ABB Technology AG Affolternstrasse 44 8050 Zürich / CH | [2014/34] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
HASLER, Jean-Philippe Medelpadsvägen 3 S-722 44 Västerås / SE | 02 /
MONGE, Mauro Siggesborgsgatan 3A S-722 22 Västerås / SE | [2014/34] | Representative(s) | Savela, Reino Aleksi ABB AB Intellectual Property Forskargränd 7 721 78 Västerås / SE | [N/P] |
| Former [2014/34] | Savela, Reino Aleksi ABB AB Intellectual Property Ingenjör Bååths Gata 11 721 83 Västerås / SE | Application number, filing date | 11773228.9 | 14.10.2011 | [2015/40] | WO2011EP67949 | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2013053399 | Date: | 18.04.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/16] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2766972 | Date: | 20.08.2014 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 18.04.2013 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2014/34] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2766972 | Date: | 30.09.2015 | Language: | EN | [2015/40] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | EP | 18.04.2013 | Classification | IPC: | H02M7/483, H02J3/18, H02J3/26 | [2015/23] | CPC: |
H02J3/26 (EP,US);
H02J3/1857 (US);
H02M7/4835 (EP,US);
H02P27/14 (EP,US);
H02M7/493 (EP,US);
Y02E40/20 (US);
Y02E40/50 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [2014/34] | H02J3/18, H02J3/26 | Designated contracting states | AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2014/34] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Title | German: | MEHRSTUFIGER WANDLER UND VERFAHREN ZUR STEUERUNG DES MEHRSTUFIGEN WANDLERS MIT ZELLSPANNUNGSAUSGLEICH | [2014/34] | English: | A MULTILEVEL CONVERTER AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MULTILEVEL CONVERTER INCLUDING BALANCING CELL VOLTAGES | [2014/34] | French: | CONVERTISSEUR MULTI-NIVEAUX ET PROCÉDÉ DE COMMANDE D'UN CONVERTISSEUR MULTI-NIVEAUX COMPRENANT L'ÉQUILIBRAGE DES TENSIONS DES CELLULES | [2014/34] | Entry into regional phase | 14.05.2014 | National basic fee paid | 14.05.2014 | Designation fee(s) paid | 14.05.2014 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 20.06.2013 | Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: EP | 14.05.2014 | Examination requested [2014/34] | 21.05.2015 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 20.08.2015 | Fee for grant paid | 20.08.2015 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 20.08.2015 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 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 21.05.2015 | Opposition(s) | 01.07.2016 | No opposition filed within time limit [2016/36] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 14.05.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 31.10.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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