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EP2918949 - HEAT PUMP DEVICE [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 26.11.2021 Database last updated on 11.09.2024
Former	The patent has been granted Status updated on 18.12.2020
Former	Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 26.08.2020
Former	Examination is in progress Status updated on 25.10.2019
Most recent event Tooltip	06.09.2024	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MT	published on 09.10.2024 [2024/41]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 7-3 Marunouchi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8310 / JP
	[2015/38]
Inventor(s)	01 / KATO, Yohei c/o Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 7-3 Marunouchi 2-chome Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8310 / JP
	[2015/38]
Representative(s)	Pfenning, Meinig & Partner mbB Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Theresienhöhe 11a 80339 München / DE
	[2021/03]
Former [2015/38]	Pfenning, Meinig & Partner GbR Patent- und Rechtsanwälte Theresienhöhe 11a 80339 München / DE
Application number, filing date	12885989.9	05.10.2012
	[2015/38]
	WO2012JP76005
Filing language	JA
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2014054176
	Date:	10.04.2014
	Language:	JA
	[2014/15]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP2918949
	Date:	16.09.2015
	Language:	EN
	[2015/38]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP2918949
	Date:	20.01.2021
	Language:	EN
	[2021/03]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	JP	10.04.2014
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	23.06.2016
Classification	IPC:	F25B6/02, F25B27/00, F25B30/06, F25B49/02, F25B13/00	[2016/30]
	CPC:	F25B6/02 (EP,US); F25B5/02 (CN); F25B13/00 (EP,CN,US); F25B27/00 (EP,CN,US); F25B27/005 (EP,US); F25B30/06 (EP,US); (+) F25B49/02 (EP,US); F24F2005/0057 (US); F24F5/0046 (US); F25B2313/002 (EP,CN,US); F25B2313/003 (EP,US); F25B2313/009 (EP,US); F25B2700/21161 (EP,US); Y02B10/40 (EP,US) (-)
	Former IPC [2015/38]	F25B6/02, F25B27/00
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 [2015/38]
Extension states	BA	Not yet paid
	ME	Not yet paid
Title	German:	WÄRMEPUMPENVORRICHTUNG	[2015/38]
	English:	HEAT PUMP DEVICE	[2015/38]
	French:	DISPOSITIF DE POMPE À CHALEUR	[2015/38]
Entry into regional phase	29.04.2015	Translation filed
	29.04.2015	National basic fee paid
	29.04.2015	Search fee paid
	29.04.2015	Designation fee(s) paid
	29.04.2015	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	29.04.2015	Examination requested [2015/38]
	01.12.2016	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	29.10.2019	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	29.01.2020	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	27.08.2020	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	14.12.2020	Fee for grant paid
	14.12.2020	Fee for publishing/printing paid
	14.12.2020	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 29.10.2019
Opposition(s)	21.10.2021	No opposition filed within time limit [2021/52]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	29.04.2015	Renewal fee patent year 03
	12.10.2015	Renewal fee patent year 04
	11.10.2016	Renewal fee patent year 05
	11.10.2017	Renewal fee patent year 06
	11.10.2018	Renewal fee patent year 07
	15.10.2019	Renewal fee patent year 08
	14.10.2020	Renewal fee patent year 09
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	HU	05.10.2012
	AL	20.01.2021
	AT	20.01.2021
	CY	20.01.2021
	CZ	20.01.2021
	DK	20.01.2021
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	IS	20.05.2021
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	IE	05.10.2021
	LU	05.10.2021
	[2024/41]
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Former [2023/29]	HU	05.10.2012
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Documents cited:	Search	[A]JP2006125769 (DENSO CORP) [A] 1-9 * the whole document *;
		[A]JP2006284022 (TOA TONE BORING KK) [A] 1-9 * & coresponding description;; figure 2 *;
		[A]JP2008164237 (JFE STEEL KK, et al) [A] 1-9 * the whole document *;
		[A]JP2009243802 (MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP) [A] 1-9* the whole document *;
		[A]JP2009276029 (DENSO CORP) [A] 1-9 * the whole document *;
		[A] - ITO S ET AL, "PERFORMANCE OF A HEAT PUMP USING DIRECT EXPANSION SOLAR COLLECTORS", SOLAR ENERGY, PERGAMON PRESS. OXFORD, GB, (19990201), vol. 65, no. 3, doi:10.1016/S0038-092X(98)00124-8, ISSN 0038-092X, pages 189 - 196, XP004362633 [A] 1-9 * the whole document * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0038-092X(98)00124-8
	International search	[A]JPS5716732U (MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.);
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		[A]JP2009243802 (MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP)
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