| EP2666552 - Ultrasonic cleaning method and ultrasonic cleaning apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 13.05.2016 Database last updated on 26.03.2026 | 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 Siltronic AG Hanns-Seidel-Platz 4 81737 München / DE | [2013/48] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Kubo, Etsuko 2-35 ems square, Makinokidai Yokkaichi, Mie 512-1306 / JP | 02 /
Haibara, Teruo 7-32-9 Mitsui Hikari, Yamaguchi 743-0011 / JP | 03 /
Mori, Yoshihiro 12-38 Nishinokyo-Badai-cho Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8457 / JP | 04 /
Uchibe, Masashi 875-2 Nakano Izumo, Shimane 693-0062 / JP | [2013/48] | Representative(s) | (deleted) | [N/P] |
| Former [2013/48] | Baar, Christian, et al c/o Siltronic AG Corporate Intellectual Property Hanns-Seidel-Platz 4 81737 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 13167904.5 | 15.05.2013 | [2013/48] | Priority number, date | JP20120118633 | 24.05.2012 Original published format: JP 2012118633 | [2013/48] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP2666552 | Date: | 27.11.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/48] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2666552 | Date: | 08.07.2015 | Language: | EN | [2015/28] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 18.09.2013 | Classification | IPC: | B08B3/12, H01L21/02 | [2015/11] | CPC: |
B08B3/12 (EP,US);
H10P50/00 (KR);
H10P70/15 (US)
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| Former [2016/07] | LT | 08.07.2015 | Documents cited: | Search | [XI] US6039055 (AKATSU HIROYUKI et al.) | [XI] US5985811 (TODA MASAYUKI et al.) | [A] US2006061225 (BECK MARK J et al.) | [A] US2005081884 (RAMACHANDRAN RAVIKUMAR et al.) | [XI] EP0860866 (IBM et al.) [X] 1,5 * column 4, line 42 - column 4, line 9 * * column 1, line 61 - column 2, line 16 * * column 2, line 57 - column 3, line 10 *[I] 2-4 | by applicant | JPH10109072 | JP2007250726 | "Behaviour of a Well Designed Megasonic Cleaning System", SOLID STATE PHENOMENA, vol. 103-104, 2005, pages 155 - 158 | "Megasonics: A cavitation driven process", SOLID STATE PHENOMENA, vol. 103-104, 2005, pages 159 - 162 |