EP0690440 - Bearing plate arrangement for supporting the rotary actuator of a disk drive [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 02.07.1999 Database last updated on 03.09.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 28.12.2007 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 30.01.2008 [2008/05] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box 309 Georgetown Grand Cayman Island / KY | [N/P] |
Former [1996/01] | For all designated states SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL c/o Maples & Calder P.O. Box 309 Georgetown Grand Cayman Island / KY | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Goss, Lloyd C. 9501 Woodbridge Road Bloomington, Minnesota 55428 / US | [1996/01] | Representative(s) | Kenyon, Sarah Elizabeth, et al Miller Sturt Kenyon 9 John Street London WC1N 2ES / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1997/41] | Kenyon, Sarah Elizabeth, et al Orchard Kenyon & Co. Staple Inn Buildings North High Holborn London WC1V 7PZ / GB | ||
Former [1996/01] | Sturt, Clifford Mark, et al J. MILLER & CO. 34 Bedford Row Holborn London WC1R 4JH / GB | Application number, filing date | 95114092.0 | 15.10.1990 | [1996/01] | Priority number, date | US19890451200 | 15.12.1989 Original published format: US 451200 | [1996/01] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0690440 | Date: | 03.01.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/01] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0690440 | Date: | 26.08.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/35] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 17.11.1995 | Classification | IPC: | G11B5/48, G11B5/55 | [1996/01] | CPC: |
G11B5/4813 (EP);
G11B5/5521 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [1996/01] | Title | German: | Trägerplattenanordnung für Drehpositioniersystem in einem Plattenantrieb | [1996/01] | English: | Bearing plate arrangement for supporting the rotary actuator of a disk drive | [1996/01] | French: | Agencement de plaque support d'un actionneur rotatif pour un entraînement de disque | [1996/01] | Examination procedure | 04.10.1995 | Examination requested [1996/03] | 19.12.1996 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 21.05.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 05.01.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 25.02.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 22.05.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 22.05.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Parent application(s) Tooltip | EP90311255.5 / EP0432877 | Opposition(s) | 27.05.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [1999/33] | Request for further processing for: | 16.08.1996 | Request for further processing filed | 09.08.1996 | Full payment received (date of receipt of payment) Request granted | 04.09.1996 | Decision despatched | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 04.10.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 04.10.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 04.10.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 04.10.1995 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 01.10.1996 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 22.09.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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Former [2004/35] | FR | 26.08.1998 | |
Former [1999/36] | FR | 22.01.1999 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US4713703 (ASANO ISAO [JP]) [A] 1-10 * column 4, line 23 - column 5, line 44; figure - *; | [A]EP0334487 (RIGIDYNE CORP [US]) [A] 1-10 * page 5, column 7, line 12 - page 7, column 11, line 57; figure - *; | [A]EP0223610 (SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY [US]) [A] 1,6,10 * page 6, line 14 - page 7, line 36; figure - *; | [A]EP0089715 (PHILIPS PATENTVERWALTUNG [DE], et al) [A] 1,6,10 * page 3, line 14 - page 4, line 30; figure - *; | [A]JPH1146173 ; | [A]JPH05570973 | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19890907), vol. 13, no. 403, Database accession no. (P - 929), & JP1146173 A 19890608 (NEC) [A] 1,6 * abstract * | [A] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19800816), vol. 4, no. 115, Database accession no. (P - 023), & JP5570973 A 19800528 (NEC) [A] 1,6 * abstract * |