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EP0438634
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Extract from the Register of European Patents
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| EP0438634 - Evaluation circuit for a capacitive sensor [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 22.11.1996 Database last updated on 30.04.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 30.11.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 02.01.2008 [2008/01] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states VDO Adolf Schindling AG Gräfstrasse 103 D-60487 Frankfurt / DE | [1991/31] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Wallrafen, Werner Hauptstrasse 127B D-6231 Sulzbach/Ts. / DE | [1991/31] | Representative(s) | Klein, Thomas Kruppstrasse 105 60388 Frankfurt am Main / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1991/31] | Klein, Thomas, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Sodener Strasse 9 D-65824 Schwalbach/Ts. / DE | Application number, filing date | 90115980.6 | 21.08.1990 | [1991/31] | Priority number, date | DE19904001814 | 23.01.1990 Original published format: DE 4001814 | [1991/31] | Filing language | DE | Procedural language | DE | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0438634 | Date: | 31.07.1991 | Language: | DE | [1991/31] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0438634 | Date: | 04.03.1992 | Language: | DE | [1992/10] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0438634 | Date: | 17.01.1996 | Language: | DE | [1996/03] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 16.01.1992 | Classification | IPC: | H03K17/955, B60S1/08, G01R27/26 | [1992/10] | CPC: |
H03K17/955 (EP,US);
B60S1/0818 (EP,US);
B60S1/0825 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [1991/31] | H03K17/955, B60S1/08 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, SE [1991/31] | Title | German: | Auswerteschaltung für einen kapazitiven Sensor | [1991/31] | English: | Evaluation circuit for a capacitive sensor | [1991/31] | French: | Circuit d'évaluation pour capteur capacitif | [1991/31] | Examination procedure | 27.01.1992 | Examination requested [1992/13] | 17.10.1994 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 13.04.1995 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 28.06.1995 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 14.07.1995 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 01.09.1995 | Fee for grant paid | 01.09.1995 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 18.10.1996 | No opposition filed within time limit [1997/02] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 16.07.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 29.06.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 05.07.1994 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 04.07.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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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. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | IT | 17.01.1996 | SE | 17.04.1996 | [2008/01] |
| Former [1999/42] | IT | 17.01.1996 | |
| SE | 17.04.1996 | ||
| Former [1996/38] | SE | 17.04.1996 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]EP0196912 (HONEYWELL INC [US]); | [A]EP0088561 (HONEYWELL INC [US]); | [A]US3774237 (HARDWAY E); | [A]US4748400 (TYPPO PEKKA M [US]); | [AD]EP0175362 (OMRON TATEISI ELECTRONICS CO [JP]) |