EP2693050 - CONCENTRATION DIFFERENCE POWER GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 15.07.2016 Database last updated on 15.06.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 19.10.2018 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): AL | published on 21.11.2018 [2018/47] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Toray Industries, Inc. 1-1, Nihonbashi-Muromachi 2-chome Chuo-ku Tokyo, 103-8666 / JP | [2014/06] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
TANIGUCHI, Masahide c/o Shiga Plant, Toray Industries, Inc. 1-1, Sonoyama 1-chome Otsu-shi Shiga 520-8558 / JP | 02 /
MAEDA, Tomohiro c/o Shiga Plant, Toray Industries, Inc. 1-1, Sonoyama 1-chome Otsu-shi Shiga 520-8558 / JP | [2014/06] | Representative(s) | Hoefer & Partner Patentanwälte mbB Pilgersheimer Straße 20 81543 München / DE | [2015/37] |
Former [2014/06] | Hoefer & Partner Pilgersheimer Straße 20 81543 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 12763989.6 | 29.03.2012 | [2015/37] | WO2012JP58389 | Priority number, date | JP20110074639 | 30.03.2011 Original published format: JP 2011074639 | [2014/06] | Filing language | JA | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2012133661 | Date: | 04.10.2012 | Language: | JA | [2012/40] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2693050 | Date: | 05.02.2014 | Language: | EN | [2014/06] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2693050 | Date: | 09.09.2015 | Language: | EN | [2015/37] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | JP | 04.10.2012 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 25.07.2014 | Classification | IPC: | F03G7/04, F03G6/06 | [2015/14] | CPC: |
F03G7/005 (EP,US);
F03G7/04 (KR);
F03B13/00 (US);
B01D61/0021 (US);
B01D61/0022 (US);
Y02E10/20 (US);
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Former IPC [2014/35] | F03G7/00, F03G7/04 | ||
Former IPC [2014/06] | F03G7/00 | 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 [2014/06] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Title | German: | VORRICHTUNG ZUR ERZEUGUNG EINES DIFFERENZSTROMS UND BETRIEBSVERFAHREN DAFÜR | [2014/06] | English: | CONCENTRATION DIFFERENCE POWER GENERATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME | [2014/06] | French: | DISPOSITIF DE PRODUCTION D'ÉNERGIE PAR DIFFÉRENCE DE CONCENTRATION ET MÉTHODE D'UTILISATION DE CELUI-CI | [2014/06] | Entry into regional phase | 19.09.2013 | Translation filed | 19.09.2013 | National basic fee paid | 19.09.2013 | Search fee paid | 19.09.2013 | Designation fee(s) paid | 19.09.2013 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 19.09.2013 | Examination requested [2014/06] | 22.10.2014 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 24.11.2014 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 31.03.2015 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 23.07.2015 | Fee for grant paid | 23.07.2015 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 23.07.2015 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 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 22.10.2014 | Opposition(s) | 10.06.2016 | No opposition filed within time limit [2016/33] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 31.03.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 31.03.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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