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EP0337575
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| EP0337575 - Ultrasonic probe and manufacture method for same [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 10.02.1994 Database last updated on 01.01.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.03.1997 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 23.04.1997 [1997/17] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. 6-2, Ohtemachi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0004 / JP | For all designated states Hitachi, Ltd. 6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1989/42] | For all designated states HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD. 6-2, Ohtemachi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100 / JP | ||
| For all designated states HITACHI, LTD. 6, Kanda Surugadai 4-chome Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Sato, Kazuo 1-26-12 Asagayaminami Suginami-ku Tokyo / JP | 02 /
Kanda, Hiroshi 4-15-4 Midori-cho Tokorozawa-shi Saitama-ken / JP | 03 /
Kato, Shigeo 1-21-21 Iguchi Mitaka-shi Tokyo / JP | 04 /
Imai, Kuninori 1819-15 Kawashiri Shiroyama-machi Tsukui-gun Kanagawa-ken / JP | 05 /
Shiokawa, Takeji 2-50 Miyoshi-cho Fuchu-shi Tokyo / JP | 06 /
Tanaka, Shinji 2-4-15-304 Tsutsujigaoka Akishima-shi Tokyo / JP | 07 /
Ishikawa, Isao 4-204 Higashitoyota Hino-shi Tokyo / JP | 08 /
Onozato, Harumassa 2070-15 Shin-machi Oume-shi Tokyo / JP | 09 /
Hashimoto, Hisayoshi 3613-59 Kashiwada-machi Ushiku-shi Ibaraki-ken / JP | 10 /
Tamura, Morio 2678-8 Kandatu-machi Tsuchiura-shi Ibaraki-ken / JP | 11 /
Hatano, Kazuyoshi 213-64 Hakari Minori-machi Higashiibaraki-gun Ibaraki-ken / JP | 12 /
Sato, Fujio 2349, Tamadori Tsukuba-shi Ibaraki-ken / JP | 13 /
Ichiryuu, Ken 3905 Shimoinayoshi Chiyoda-mura Niihari-gun Ibaraki-ken / JP | 14 /
Tanaka, Kiyoshi 2635-8 Hei Toyooka-machi Mizukaido-shi Ibaraki-ken / JP | 15 /
Kawanuma, Takao 2432-70 Kurimatashika Tamari-mura Niihari-gun Ibaraki-ken / JP | [1989/42] | Representative(s) | Smulders, Theodorus A.H.J., et al Vereenigde Postbus 87930 2508 DH Den Haag / NL | [N/P] |
| Former [1989/42] | Smulders, Theodorus A.H.J., Ir., et al Vereenigde Octrooibureaux Nieuwe Parklaan 97 NL-2587 BN 's-Gravenhage / NL | Application number, filing date | 89200917.6 | 12.04.1989 | [1989/42] | Priority number, date | JP19880089059 | 13.04.1988 Original published format: JP 8905988 | JP19880287720 | 16.11.1988 Original published format: JP 28772088 | [1989/42] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0337575 | Date: | 18.10.1989 | Language: | EN | [1989/42] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0337575 | Date: | 29.11.1989 | Language: | EN | [1989/48] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0337575 | Date: | 07.04.1993 | Language: | EN | [1993/14] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 11.10.1989 | Classification | IPC: | G10K11/30 | [1989/42] | CPC: |
G10K11/30 (EP,US);
Y10T29/42 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1989/42] | Title | German: | Ultraschallwandler und Verfahren zu dessen Herstellung | [1989/42] | English: | Ultrasonic probe and manufacture method for same | [1989/42] | French: | Transducteur à ultrason et son procédé de production | [1989/42] | File destroyed: | 20.04.2002 | Examination procedure | 13.10.1989 | Request for accelerated examination filed | 16.03.1990 | Examination requested [1990/20] | 25.10.1990 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 25.10.1990 | Decision about request for accelerated examination - accepted: Yes | 26.04.1991 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.10.1991 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 27.04.1992 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 24.06.1992 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No) | 22.09.1992 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval) | 08.10.1992 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 05.01.1993 | Fee for grant paid | 05.01.1993 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 08.01.1994 | No opposition filed within time limit [1994/13] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.04.1991 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 29.04.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Documents cited: | Search | [A]EP0032739 (HITACHI LTD [JP]) | [A] - IEEE 1986 ULTRASONICS SYMPOSIUM, Williamsburg, 17th-19th November 1986, vol. 2, pages 745-748, IEEE, New York, US; K. YAMADA et al.: "Planar-structure focusing lens for operation at 200 MHz and its application to the reflection-mode acoustic microscope" | [A] - APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, vol. 52, no. 10, March 1988, pages 836-837, American Institute of Physics, New York, US; D.L. KENDALL et al.: "Chemically etched micromirrors in silicon" | [A] - RCA REVIEW, vol. 31, no. 2, June 1970, pages 271-275, Princeton, US; A.I. STOLLER: "The etching of deep vertical-walled patterns in silicon" | [A] - IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, vol. 14, no. 2, July 1971, page 417, New York, US; R.A. LEONE et al.: "Fabricating shaped grid and aperture holes" | [A] - EXTENDED ABSTRACTS/ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY, vol. 87-2, October 1987, page 769, Princeton, New Jersey, US; E. BASSOUS: "Anisotropic etching of silicon for 3-D microstructure fabrication - A review" | [AD] - ELECTRONICS LETTERS, vol. 17, no. 15, 23rd July 1981, pages 520-522, Hitchen, GB; J. KUSHIBIKI et al.: "Linearly focused acoustic beams for acoustic microscopy" | Examination | - PROCEEDINGS 1985 IEEE ULTRASONICS SYMPOSIUM, (1985), pages 755-759, K. YAMADA and H. SHIMIZU: "Planar-structure focusing lens for acoustic microscope" |