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EP About this file: EP0433480

EP0433480 - Hollow electrode switch [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  09.02.2001
Database last updated on 01.01.2025
Most recent event   Tooltip30.11.2007Lapse of the patent in a contracting state
New state(s): IT
published on 02.01.2008  [2008/01]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 1
DE-80333 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2000/15]For all designated states
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Wittelsbacherplatz 2
80333 München / DE
Former [1991/26]For all designated states
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Wittelsbacherplatz 2
D-80333 München / DE
Inventor(s)01 / Rohde, Klaus-D.
Elise-Späth-Strasse 6
D-8520 Erlangen / DE
[1991/26]
Application number, filing date89123566.520.12.1989
[1991/26]
Filing languageDE
Procedural languageDE
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0433480
Date:26.06.1991
Language:DE
[1991/26]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0433480
Date:12.04.2000
Language:DE
[2000/15]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP28.08.1990
ClassificationIPC:H01T2/02
[1991/26]
CPC:
H01T2/02 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesCH,   DE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   LI [1991/26]
TitleGerman:Hohlelektrodenschalter[1991/26]
English:Hollow electrode switch[1991/26]
French:Commutateur à électrode creuse[1991/26]
Examination procedure26.10.1990Examination requested  [1991/26]
10.03.1994Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
14.07.1994Reply to a communication from the examining division
29.05.1995Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
28.09.1995Reply to a communication from the examining division
29.04.1996Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
08.11.1996Reply to a communication from the examining division
13.12.1996Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
21.04.1997Reply to a communication from the examining division
19.06.1998Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M02)
17.08.1998Reply to a communication from the examining division
14.10.1998Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
14.12.1998Reply to a communication from the examining division
11.02.1999Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
18.05.1999Communication of intention to grant the patent
05.08.1999Fee for grant paid
05.08.1999Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)13.01.2001No opposition filed within time limit [2001/13]
Fees paidRenewal fee
02.01.1991Renewal fee patent year 03
16.12.1992Renewal fee patent year 04
16.12.1993Renewal fee patent year 05
16.12.1994Renewal fee patent year 06
18.12.1995Renewal fee patent year 07
16.12.1996Renewal fee patent year 08
18.12.1997Renewal fee patent year 09
17.12.1998Renewal fee patent year 10
17.12.1999Renewal fee patent year 11
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipIT12.04.2000
CH31.12.2000
LI31.12.2000
[2008/01]
Former [2002/15]CH31.12.2000
LI31.12.2000
Documents cited:Search[A]WO8900354  (CHRISTIANSEN JENS [DE], et al)
 [AD]  - JOURNAL OF PHYSICS E. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. vol. 19, no. 6, Juni 1986, ISHING, BRISTOL GB Seiten 466 - 470; MECHTERSHEIMER e.a.: "High repetition rate, fast current rise, pseudo-spark switch."
ExaminationUS4280098
 EP0337192
    - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 29 (1990), Febr. , No. 2, Part. 2, S. L 371 - L 374, A. Tinschmann et al.: "The Pseudospark Switch - A High-Voltage Gas Discharge Switch for High-Power Appl
    - Rapport - Bericht R 131/84, G. Mechtersheimer, R. Meyer, "Aufbau und Eigenschaften eines für gro$e Stromanstiegsraten und hohe Wiederholfrequenzen geeigneten Pseudofunkenschalters, Saint-Louis
    - Plasma und Lichtbogen, Verlag Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1967, W. Rieder, S. 62-65
    - Encyclopedia of Physics, Edited by S. Flügge, Volume XXII, Gas Discharges II, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1956, S. 56, 57, Gordon Francis: The Glow Discharge at Low Pressure
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