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EP About this file: EP0173164

EP0173164 - Microwave assisting sputtering [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  13.09.1989
Database last updated on 03.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip15.08.2008Change - representativepublished on 17.09.2008  [2008/38]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Hitachi, Ltd.
6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [1986/10]For all designated states
HITACHI, LTD.
6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Saito, Hiroshi
6395-80, Tsujido
Fujisawa-shi Kanagawa-ken / JP
02 / Suzuki, Yasumichi
Hitachi Keimei-ryo 850, Maioka-cho Totsuka-ku
Yokohama-shi Kanagawa-ken / JP
03 / Sano, Shuuzoo
Hitachi Koushin-ryo 850, Maioka-cho Totsuka-ku
Yokohama-shi Kanagawa-ken / JP
04 / Shimizu, Tamotsu
Hitachi Keimei-ryo 850, Maioka-cho Totsuka-ku
Yokohama-shi Kanagawa-ken / JP
05 / Aiuchi, Susumu Totsuka-Highrise 425
884-1, Kamikurata-cho Totsuka-ku
Yokohama-shi Kanagawa-ken / JP
[1986/10]
Representative(s)Beetz & Partner mbB
Patentanwälte
Prinzregentenstraße 54
80538 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2008/38]Beetz & Partner
Patentanwälte Steinsdorfstrasse 10
80538 München / DE
Former [1986/10]Patentanwälte Beetz - Timpe - Siegfried Schmitt-Fumian - Mayr
Steinsdorfstrasse 10
D-80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date85110155.013.08.1985
[1986/10]
Priority number, dateJP1984018053231.08.1984         Original published format: JP 18053284
JP1984020705804.10.1984         Original published format: JP 20705884
JP1984022394426.10.1984         Original published format: JP 22394484
JP1985003260422.02.1985         Original published format: JP 3260485
[1986/10]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0173164
Date:05.03.1986
Language:EN
[1986/10]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0173164
Date:09.11.1988
Language:EN
[1988/45]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP12.12.1985
ClassificationIPC:H01L21/203, C23C14/28, H01J37/34
[1986/10]
CPC:
C23C14/357 (EP,US); H01L21/203 (KR); H01J37/3405 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1986/10]
TitleGerman:Aufstäuben mittels Mikrowellen[1986/10]
English:Microwave assisting sputtering[1986/10]
French:Vaporisation à l'aide de micro-ondes[1986/10]
Examination procedure10.03.1986Examination requested  [1986/20]
10.04.1987Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
12.10.1987Reply to a communication from the examining division
12.01.1988Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
13.05.1988Communication of intention to grant the patent
18.05.1988Fee for grant paid
18.05.1988Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)10.08.1989No opposition filed within time limit [1989/44]
Fees paidRenewal fee
21.08.1987Renewal fee patent year 03
25.08.1988Renewal fee patent year 04
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Documents cited:SearchEP0103461  [ ] (NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE [JP]);
 DE3322680  [ ] (HITACHI LTD [JP]);
 US3325394  [ ] (ERIC KAY, et al)
    [ ] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, unexamined application, C-field, vol. 6, no. 114, June 25, 1982 THE PATENT OFFICE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT page 35C110 * JP - A - 57-41 375 ( NIPPPON SHINKU ) *
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