EP0730156 - Method and apparatus for DC motor speed monitoring [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 08.06.2001 Database last updated on 19.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 13.06.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 16.07.2008 [2008/29] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states FORD MOTOR COMPANY The American Road Dearborn, MI 48126 / US | [N/P] |
Former [1996/36] | For all designated states Ford Motor Company The American Road Dearborn, MI 48126 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Dygert, Gregory J. 13444 Diena Warren, Michigan 48093 / US | 02 /
Macks, Harold R. 7619 Rosemont Detroit, Michigan 48228 / US | 03 /
Nimer, Steven P. 2155 Shankin Walled Lake, Michigan 48390 / US | [1996/36] | Representative(s) | Messulam, Alec Moses Harrison IP Limited 3 Ebor House London Ebor Business Park Millfield Lane Nether Poppleton York YO26 6QY / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1996/36] | Messulam, Alec Moses A. Messulam & Co. 24 Broadway Leigh on Sea Essex SS9 1BN / GB | Application number, filing date | 96300537.6 | 25.01.1996 | [1996/36] | Priority number, date | US19950398271 | 03.03.1995 Original published format: US 398271 | [1996/36] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0730156 | Date: | 04.09.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/36] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0730156 | Date: | 09.08.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/32] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 21.06.1996 | Classification | IPC: | G01P3/48 | [1996/36] | CPC: |
H02P6/06 (EP,US);
Y10S388/903 (EP);
Y10S388/909 (EP)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, PT [1996/36] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Überwachung der Geschwindigkeit eines Gleichstrommotors | [1996/36] | English: | Method and apparatus for DC motor speed monitoring | [1996/36] | French: | Procédé et dispositif pour surveiller la vitesse d'un moteur à courant continu | [1996/36] | Examination procedure | 11.11.1996 | Examination requested [1997/02] | 18.01.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 14.05.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 27.10.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 14.02.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 26.02.2000 | Fee for grant paid | 26.02.2000 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 10.05.2001 | No opposition filed within time limit [2001/30] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 25.11.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.11.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 24.12.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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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 | PT | 25.01.2001 | [2008/29] | Documents cited: | Search | [YA]DE3824811 (TEVES GMBH CO OHG ALFRED [DE]) [Y] 1,10,14-16 * column 3, lines 4-64; figures 1,2 * [A] 2,3,5,11,17; | [YA]DE3935585 (FILBERT DIETER PROF DR ING [DE]) [Y] 1,10,14-16 * column 1, line 27 - column 2, line 24; figure 1 * [A] 2,4,11; | [A] - "BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR FAULT DETECTION CIRCUIT", IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, (19941201), vol. 37, no. 12, page 281/282, XP000487785 [A] 1,4,7,9,13,15,18 * page 281, line 1 - page 282, line 35; figures 1,3 * |