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EP2777047 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING PLASMA TO A HIGH ENERGY STATE [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application is deemed to be withdrawn Status updated on 20.10.2017 Database last updated on 07.06.2024
Former	Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 03.01.2017
Most recent event Tooltip	20.10.2017	Application deemed to be withdrawn	published on 22.11.2017 [2017/47]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Freeze, Brent 8 Corporate Park Suite 300 Irvine, CA 92606 / US
	[2014/38]
Inventor(s)	01 / see applicant ...
	[2014/38]
Representative(s)	Twelmeier Mommer & Partner Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Westliche Karl-Friedrich-Strasse 56-68 75172 Pforzheim / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2014/38]	Twelmeier Mommer & Partner Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Westliche Karl-Friedrich-Strasse 56-68 75172 Pforzheim / DE
Application number, filing date	11875462.1	09.11.2011
	WO2011US01879
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2013070179
	Date:	16.05.2013
	Language:	EN
	[2013/20]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP2777047
	Date:	17.09.2014
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 16.05.2013 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2014/38]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	16.05.2013
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	20.05.2015
Classification	IPC:	G21B1/05, H05H1/12, G21B1/03, G21B3/00	[2017/02]
	CPC:	G21B1/00 (EP); G21B1/052 (EP); G21B3/006 (EP); H05H1/12 (EP); Y02E30/10 (EP)
	Former IPC [2015/25]	G21C13/04, G21B1/00, H05H1/12
	Former IPC [2014/38]	G21C13/04
Designated contracting states	AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2014/38]
Title	German:	VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUR PLASMAKOMPRESSION MIT HOHEM ENERGIEZUSTAND	[2014/38]
	English:	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING PLASMA TO A HIGH ENERGY STATE	[2014/38]
	French:	PROCÉDÉ ET APPAREIL POUR COMPRIMER UN PLASMA JUSQU'À UN ÉTAT DE HAUTE ÉNERGIE	[2014/38]
Entry into regional phase	02.06.2014	National basic fee paid
	02.06.2014	Search fee paid
	02.06.2014	Designation fee(s) paid
	02.06.2014	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	02.06.2014	Examination requested [2014/38]
	18.12.2015	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	04.01.2017	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	16.05.2017	Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect [2017/47]
	19.06.2017	Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: fee for grant / fee for printing not paid in time [2017/47]
Divisional application(s)	The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 04.01.2017
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	04.06.2014	Renewal fee patent year 03
	27.11.2014	Renewal fee patent year 04
	27.11.2015	Renewal fee patent year 05
	Penalty fee
	Additional fee for renewal fee
	30.11.2016	06 M06 Not yet paid
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Documents cited:	Search	[A]US4000036 (ENSLEY DONALD L) [A] 6,9,10 * column 3, line 20 - column 4, line 2 * * figure 1 *;
		[A]WO2010089670 (GEN FUSION INC [CA], et al) [A] 1,11,13,16,17 * the whole document *
		[A] - MEEKER D J ET AL, "A high efficiency ICF driver employing magnetically confined plasma rings", FUSION TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY, SOC, LA GRANGE PARK, ILL, US, (19850701), vol. 8, no. 1, ISSN 0272-3921, pages 1191 - 1197, XP002696673 [A] 1,8,11,13,16,17 * page 1, paragraph 1 - page 3, paragraph 2 * * figures 2,3 *
		[A] - DEGNAN ET AL., "Compression of compact toroids in conical-coaxial geometry", FUSION TECHNOLOGY, USA, (199503), vol. 27, no. 2, ISSN 0748-1896, pages 107 - 114, XP002739394 [A] 1,11,13,16,17 * page 108, paragraph 1 - page 109, paragraph 3 *
	International search	[A]US6942767 (FAZZINA DAVID [US], et al);
		[A]US5500256 (WATABE MASAHIRO [JP]);
		[A]US2004261712 (HAYASHI DAISUKE [JP], et al);
		[A]GB2155103 (SEIKO SEIKI KK);
		[A]US2001016166 (DANDL RAPHAEL A [US], et al);
		[A]US7780923 (IMANISHI YUICHIRO [JP], et al);
		[A] - KWON ET AL., "An experimental study on the pumping performance of molecular drag pumps", JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, vol. 20, no. 9, (200609), pages 1483 - 1491, URL: http://search.proquest.com/docview/884714243/135211658A5249F15F8/3? accountid=142944, (20120224), XP055066830 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02915971
		[A] - XU, "Experimental, theoretical, and numerical studies of small scale combustion", DISSERTATION. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY., (200811), URL: http://search.proquest.com/docview/275612882/13524B4143A41 E56A4A/3? accountid=142944, (20120224), XP055153950
	by applicant	- "A high efficiency ICF driver employing magnetically confined plasma rings", MEEKER D J ET AL., FUSION TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY, LA GRANGE PARK, (19850701), vol. 8, pages 1191 - 1197
		- DEGNAN ET AL., "Compression of compact toroids in conical-coaxial geometry", FUSION TECHNOLOGY, (199503), vol. 27, no. 2, pages 107 - 114

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