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EP About this file: EP0171437

EP0171437 - TAPPING METHOD [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application has been withdrawn
Status updated on  22.01.1990
Database last updated on 31.08.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip07.07.2007Change - inventorpublished on 08.08.2007  [2007/32]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
FANUC LTD
3580, Shibokusa Aza-Komanba, Oshinomura Minamitsuru-gun
Yamanashi 401-05 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1986/08]For all designated states
FANUC LTD.
3580, Shibokusa Aza-Komanba, Oshinomura
Minamitsuru-gun, Yamanashi 401-05 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / KIYA, Nobuyuki Yokokawacho-Jutaku 13-106
108, Yokokawa-cho Hachioji-shi
Tokyo 193 / JP
02 / YOSHINO, Motoaki Haitsu-Fukuju B-205
5-35-19, Kugayama
Suginami-ku Tokyo 168 / JP
[1986/08]
Representative(s)Billington, Lawrence Emlyn, et al
Haseltine Lake LLP Lincoln House, 5th Floor 300 High Holborn
London WC1V 7JH / GB
[N/P]
Former [1986/08]Billington, Lawrence Emlyn, et al
HASELTINE LAKE & CO Hazlitt House 28 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1AT / GB
Application number, filing date85900766.804.02.1985
[1986/08]
WO1985JP00044
Priority number, dateJP1984001808303.02.1984         Original published format: JP 1808384
[1986/28]
Former [1986/08]deleted
Filing languageJA
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO8503468
Date:15.08.1985
Language:EN
[1985/18]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0171437
Date:19.02.1986
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 15.08.1985 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[1986/08]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:JP15.08.1985
(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP23.08.1988
ClassificationIPC:B23G1/16
[1986/08]
CPC:
G05B19/186 (EP,US); G05B2219/45216 (EP,US); G05B2219/50225 (EP,US);
G05B2219/50226 (EP,US); Y10T408/17 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1986/08]
TitleGerman:GEWINDEBOHRMETHODE[1986/08]
English:TAPPING METHOD[1986/08]
French:PROCEDE DE TARAUDAGE[1986/08]
File destroyed:17.06.1996
Entry into regional phase02.10.1985Translation filed 
17.10.1985National basic fee paid 
17.10.1985Search fee paid 
17.10.1985Designation fee(s) paid 
17.10.1985Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure17.10.1985Examination requested  [1986/08]
20.12.1989Application withdrawn by applicant  [1990/11]
Fees paidRenewal fee
30.01.1987Renewal fee patent year 03
28.01.1988Renewal fee patent year 04
26.01.1989Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:Search[XP]JP59146717  ;
 [Y]EP0086234  (FANUC LTD [JP]);
 [Y]GB968168  (HUGHES AIRCRAFT CO);
 [Y]GB2073880  (MUTOH IND LTD)
 [XP]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, vol. 8, no. 276 (M-346)[1713], 18th December 1984; & JP-A-59 146 717 (MITSUBISHI DENKI K.K.) 22-08-1984, & JP59146717 A 00000000
International searchJPS454473Y  [ ]
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