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EP About this file: EP0015714

EP0015714 - Alkali metal thermoelectric generator [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application has been refused
Status updated on  08.08.1983
Database last updated on 18.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip07.07.2007Change - inventorpublished on 08.08.2007  [2007/32]
Applicant(s)For:GB 
Ford Motor Company Limited
Eagle Way Brentwood
Essex CM13 3BW / GB
For:DE 
FORD-WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
50725 Köln / DE
For:FR 
FORD FRANCE SOCIETE ANONYME
344 Avenue Napoléon Bonaparte B.P. 307
92506 Rueil Malmaison Cedex / FR
[N/P]
Former [1982/23]For:GB 
FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
Eagle Way
Brentwood, Essex CM13 3BW / GB
For:DE 
FORD-WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
D-50725 Köln / DE
For:FR 
FORD FRANCE SOCIETE ANONYME
344 Avenue Napoléon Bonaparte B.P. 307
F-92506 Rueil Malmaison Cedex / FR
Former [1980/19]For:GB 
FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
Eagle Way
Brentwood Essex CM13 3BW / GB
For:DE 
FORD-WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Ottoplatz 2 Postfach 210369
D-5000 Köln 21 / DE
For:FR 
Ford France Société Anonyme
344 Avenue Napoléon Bonaparte B.P. 307
F-92506 Rueil Malmaison Cedex / FR
Inventor(s)01 / Hunt, Thomas Kintzing
3420 Andover
Ann Arbor Michigan 48105 / US
[1980/19]
Representative(s)Drakeford, Robert William, et al
Ford Motor Company Limited
15/448, Research & Engineering Centre
Laindon
Basildon
Essex SS15 6EE / GB
[N/P]
Former [1980/19]Drakeford, Robert William, et al
Ford Motor Company Limited 15/448, Research & Engineering Centre Laindon
Basildon Essex SS15 6EE / GB
Application number, filing date80300590.928.02.1980
[1980/19]
Priority number, dateUS1979001624028.02.1979         Original published format: US 16240
[1980/19]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0015714
Date:17.09.1980
Language:EN
[1980/19]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0015714
Date:18.02.1981
Language:EN
[1981/07]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP16.12.1980
ClassificationIPC:H01G9/20
[1980/19]
CPC:
H01G9/21 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1980/19]
TitleGerman:Thermoelektrischer Generator mit Alkali-Metall[1980/19]
English:Alkali metal thermoelectric generator[1980/19]
French:Générateur thermo-électrique à métal alcalin[1980/19]
File destroyed:18.06.1989
Examination procedure19.06.1981Examination requested  [1981/35]
26.04.1982Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
13.08.1982Reply to a communication from the examining division
11.10.1982Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [1983/41]
12.01.1983Application refused, date of legal effect [1983/41]
Appeal following examinationAppeal received No.  T37/83
Fees paidRenewal fee
01.02.1982Renewal fee patent year 03
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Documents cited:Search[A]US4042757  (JONES IVOR WYNN);
 US4135040  [ ] (THORNTON ROY F)
 [AD]  - ENERGY CONVERSION, vol. 14, no. 1, 1974, Oxford GB, N. WEBER: "A Thermoelectric device based on beta-alumina solid electrolyte"page 1-8.
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