| EP2937985 - Multi-level power converter [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 03.11.2017 Database last updated on 14.03.2026 | |
| Former | The patent has been granted Status updated on 25.11.2016 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.07.2020 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 19.08.2020 [2020/34] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Schneider Toshiba Inverter Europe SAS 33, rue André Blanchet 27120 Pacy sur Eure / FR | [2015/44] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Lavieville, Jean-Paul 4 rue du Moulin 78470 Saint Lambert des Bois / FR | [2015/44] | Representative(s) | Dufresne, Thierry, et al Schneider Electric Industries SAS Service Propriété Industrielle 35 rue Joseph Monier - CS 30323 92506 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex / FR | [2016/52] |
| Former [2015/44] | Bié, Nicolas, et al Schneider Electric Industries SAS Service Propriété Industrielle 35 rue Joseph Monier - CS 30323 92506 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex / FR | Application number, filing date | 15157308.6 | 03.03.2015 | [2015/44] | Priority number, date | FR20140052963 | 03.04.2014 Original published format: FR 1452963 | [2015/44] | Filing language | FR | Procedural language | FR | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2937985 | Date: | 28.10.2015 | Language: | FR | [2015/44] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP2937985 | Date: | 20.01.2016 | Language: | FR | [2016/03] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2937985 | Date: | 28.12.2016 | Language: | FR | [2016/52] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 17.12.2015 | Classification | IPC: | H02M7/487, H02M3/158, H02M5/42 | [2016/03] | CPC: |
H02M7/4837 (EP);
H02M3/158 (US);
H02M5/42 (US);
H02M7/487 (EP,US);
H02M1/007 (EP,US);
H02M1/0095 (EP)
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