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EP0099720
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| EP0099720 - Photovoltaic device [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 17.03.1989 Database last updated on 28.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 01.07.1989 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): GB | published on 16.08.1989 [1989/33] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 72, Horikawa-cho Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa-ken 210-8572 / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [1984/05] | For all designated states KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA 72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 210, Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Nozaki, Hidetoshi 9 Daiichi-Matsuba-so 256-6 Sanmai-cho Kanagawa-ku Yokohama-shi / JP | 02 /
Kamimura, Takaaki 1-1433, Kamimarukosannocho Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi / JP | 03 /
Hatayama, Tamothu 1-126, Shinmatsudo Matsudo-shi Chiba-ken / JP | 04 /
Utagawa, Tadashi 4-26, Kitakaruizawa Nishi-ku Yokohama-shi / JP | [1984/05] | Representative(s) | Freed, Arthur Woolf, et al Marks & Clerk Incorporating Edward Evans Barker 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1984/05] | Freed, Arthur Woolf, et al MARKS & CLERK, 57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LS / GB | Application number, filing date | 83304053.8 | 12.07.1983 | [1984/05] | Priority number, date | JP19820122940 | 16.07.1982 Original published format: JP 12294082 | [1984/05] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0099720 | Date: | 01.02.1984 | Language: | EN | [1984/05] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0099720 | Date: | 15.05.1985 | Language: | EN | [1985/20] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0099720 | Date: | 18.05.1988 | Language: | EN | [1988/20] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 15.03.1985 | Classification | IPC: | H01L31/06, H01L31/10, H01L31/02 | [1984/05] | CPC: |
H10F10/17 (EP,US);
H10F30/2235 (EP,US);
H10F77/1692 (EP,US);
Y02E10/548 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, NL [1984/05] | Title | German: | Fotovoltaische Vorrichtung | [1984/05] | English: | Photovoltaic device | [1984/05] | French: | Dispositif photovoltaique | [1984/05] | Examination procedure | 21.07.1983 | Examination requested [1984/05] | 30.09.1986 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 31.01.1987 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.08.1987 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: ) | 12.11.1987 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 04.02.1988 | Fee for grant paid | 04.02.1988 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 21.02.1989 | No opposition filed within time limit [1989/18] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 11.07.1985 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 10.07.1986 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 07.07.1987 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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| Former [1989/11] | NL | 18.05.1988 | Documents cited: | Search | [A] IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES. Vol. ED-27, No. 4, April 1980, NEW YORK (US). Pages 662-670. V.L. DALAL:" Design considerations for a-Si solar cells". [A] | [A] IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS. Vol. EDL-3, No. 5, May 1982, NEW YORK (US). Pages 114-115. H. IIDA et al:" High efficiency a,Si:H p-i-n solar cell using a Sn02/glass substrate". [A] | Examination | IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS, vol. EDL-3, no. 5, May 1982, NEW YORK (US), pages 114-115, H. IIDA et al.: "High efficiency a-Si: H p-i-n solar cell using a SnO2/glass substrate" [A] |