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EP3431924 - INTERNAL CIRCUMFERENCE MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR CIRCULAR MEMBER [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The patent has been granted Status updated on 02.08.2024 Database last updated on 03.08.2024
Former	Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 14.05.2024
Former	Examination is in progress Status updated on 11.05.2021
Former	Request for examination was made Status updated on 21.12.2018
Former	The international publication has been made Status updated on 22.09.2017
Most recent event Tooltip	02.08.2024	(Expected) grant	published on 04.09.2024 [2024/36]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. 2-1, Oiwake Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-8601 / JP
	[2024/34]
Former [2023/46]	For all designated states The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. 2-1, Oiwake Hiratsuka-shi Kanagawa Prefecture, 254-8601 / JP
Former [2019/04]	For all designated states The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. 36-11 Shimbashi 5-chome Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8685 / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / MATSUMURA Kensuke c/o The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. Shinshiro Plant 1 Furuyashiki Noda-Aza Shinshiro-shi Aichi 441-1343 / JP
	02 / SUGIYAMA Yuichi c/o The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. Shinshiro Plant 1 Furuyashiki Noda-Aza Shinshiro-shi Aichi 441-1343 / JP
	[2019/04]
Representative(s)	Dilg, Haeusler, Schindelmann Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH Leonrodstraße 58 80636 München / DE
	[2024/36]
Former [2019/04]	Dilg, Haeusler, Schindelmann Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH Leonrodstrasse 58 80636 München / DE
Application number, filing date	17766202.0	16.02.2017
	[2019/04]
	WO2017JP05617
Priority number, date	JP20160052625	16.03.2016 Original published format: JP 2016052625
	[2019/04]
Filing language	JA
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2017159195
	Date:	21.09.2017
	Language:	JA
	[2017/38]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP3431924
	Date:	23.01.2019
	Language:	EN
	[2019/04]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP3431924
	Date:	04.09.2024
	Language:	EN
	[2024/36]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	JP	21.09.2017
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	05.09.2019
Classification	IPC:	G01B21/02, G01B21/06, G01B11/24, G01B11/12, G01B21/20, G01B21/14, G01B11/255, G01B11/04, G01B11/02, G01B5/02	[2024/22]
	CPC:	G01B11/02 (EP,KR,US); G01B11/12 (KR); G01B11/043 (US); G01B11/026 (EP,US); G01B21/02 (KR,US); G01B21/06 (US); (+) G01B5/025 (EP) (-)
	Former IPC [2019/41]	G01B21/02, G01B11/02, G01B11/04, G01B11/255, G01B21/14, G01B21/20, G01B11/12, G01B11/24, G01B21/06
	Former IPC [2019/04]	G01B21/02, G01B11/02
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 [2019/04]
Extension states	BA	Not yet paid
	ME	Not yet paid
Validation states	MA	Not yet paid
	MD	Not yet paid
Title	German:	VERFAHREN ZUR MESSUNG DES INNENUMFANGS EINES RUNDEN ELEMENTS	[2019/04]
	English:	INTERNAL CIRCUMFERENCE MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR CIRCULAR MEMBER	[2019/04]
	French:	PROCÉDÉ DE MESURE DE CIRCONFÉRENCE INTERNE POUR ÉLÉMENT ROND	[2019/04]
Entry into regional phase	10.08.2018	Translation filed
	10.08.2018	National basic fee paid
	10.08.2018	Search fee paid
	10.08.2018	Designation fee(s) paid
	10.08.2018	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	deleted	Date on which the examining division has become responsible
	10.08.2018	Examination requested [2019/04]
	23.03.2020	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	10.05.2021	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	16.09.2021	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	27.02.2023	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	19.06.2023	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	15.05.2024	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	30.07.2024	Fee for grant paid
	30.07.2024	Fee for publishing/printing paid
	30.07.2024	Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	08.02.2019	Renewal fee patent year 03
	13.02.2020	Renewal fee patent year 04
	12.02.2021	Renewal fee patent year 05
	14.01.2022	Renewal fee patent year 06
	03.01.2023	Renewal fee patent year 07
	03.01.2024	Renewal fee patent year 08
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Documents cited:	Search	[Y]JPH037482U ;
		[Y]JP2010048731 (TOYOTA MOTOR CORP);
		[Y]US2013253871 (GRAY PAUL J [US]);
		[XY]WO2015008820 (NIKON CORP [JP]);
		[Y]US2015241206 (KASAI HIROAKI [JP], et al)
	International search	[YA]JPH01195309 (SUMITOMO RUBBER IND) [Y] 1, 5 * , claims; page 6, upper left column, line 19 to page 9, upper right column, line 13; fig. 1, 3, 5, 7 to 8 (Family: none) * [A] 2-4;
		[A]JPH037482U (Kabushiki Kaisha Hirotetsuku) [A] 2-3 * , entire text; all drawings (Family: none) *;
		[A]US6289600 (WATTS KENNETH J [US]) [A] 1-5* , entire text; all drawings (Family: none) *;
		[Y]JP2001255119 (SHIMADZU CORP) [Y] 5 * , paragraph [0014] (Family: none) *;
		[Y]JP2005140726 (OMRON TATEISI ELECTRONICS CO) [Y] 5 * , paragraph [0086] (Family: none) *;
		[Y]JP2009216453 (AISIN SEIKI) [Y] 1, 5 * , paragraph [0018]; fig. 1 (Family: none) *;
		[Y]JP2010048731 (TOYOTA MOTOR CORP) [Y] 1, 5 * , paragraphs [0013], [0016]; fig. 2 (Family: none) *;
		[Y]JP2013134176 (SHARP KK) [Y] 1, 5 * , paragraph [0058]; fig. 1, 3 (Family: none) *;
		[Y]JP2013186009 (TOYOTA MOTOR CORP) [Y] 1, 5 * , paragraph [0023]; fig. 1 (Family: none) *

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