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EP0182422 - High breakdown voltage semiconductor devices [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  10.12.1992
Database last updated on 26.06.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip22.06.1995Change - lapse in a contracting state
State(s) deleted from list of lapses: GB
published on 09.08.1995 [1995/32]
Applicant(s)For:GB 
PHILIPS ELECTRONICS UK LIMITED
420-430 London Road
Croydon CR9 3QR / GB
For:CH  DE  FR  IT  LI  NL 
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
Groenewoudseweg 1
5621 BA Eindhoven / NL
[N/P]
Former [1986/22]For:GB 
PHILIPS ELECTRONICS UK LIMITED
420-430 London Road
Croydon CR9 3QR / GB
For:CH  DE  FR  IT  LI  NL 
Philips Electronics N.V.
Groenewoudseweg 1
NL-5621 BA Eindhoven / NL
Inventor(s)01 / Whight, Kenneth Ronald
c/o Philips Research Laboratories Redhill
Surrey RH1 5HA / GB
[1986/22]
Representative(s)Stevens, Brian Thomas, et al
Philips Electronics UK Limited Patents and Trade Marks Department Cross Oak Lane
Redhill, Surrey RH1 5HA / GB
[1989/05]
Former [1988/10]Stevens, Brian Thomas
PHILIPS ELECTRONICS Patents and Trade Marks Department Centre Point New Oxford Street
London WC1A 1QJ / GB
Former [1986/22]Stevens, Brian Thomas
Philips Electronics UK Limited Patents and Trade Marks Department Cross Oak Lane
Redhill, Surrey RH1 5HA / GB
Application number, filing date85201810.008.11.1985
[1986/22]
Priority number, dateGB1984002941021.11.1984         Original published format: GB 8429410
[1986/22]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0182422
Date:28.05.1986
Language:DE
[1986/22]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0182422
Date:07.01.1988
Language:DE
[1988/01]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0182422
Date:05.02.1992
Language:EN
[1992/06]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP18.11.1987
ClassificationIPC:H01L29/06
[1986/22]
CPC:
H01L29/405 (EP,US); H01L29/0619 (EP,US); H01L29/7322 (EP,US);
H01L29/7393 (EP,US); H01L29/74 (EP,US); H01L29/8611 (EP,US);
H01L29/872 (EP,US); H01L29/0638 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting statesCH,   DE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   LI,   NL [1986/22]
TitleGerman:Halbleitervorrichtungen mit hoher Durchbruchspannung[1986/22]
English:High breakdown voltage semiconductor devices[1986/22]
French:Dispositifs semi-conducteurs à haute tension de claquage[1986/22]
Examination procedure17.06.1988Examination requested  [1988/33]
15.03.1991Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
12.07.1991Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
25.07.1991Communication of intention to grant the patent
22.10.1991Fee for grant paid
22.10.1991Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)06.11.1992No opposition filed within time limit [1993/04]
Fees paidRenewal fee
13.11.1987Renewal fee patent year 03
28.11.1988Renewal fee patent year 04
27.11.1989Renewal fee patent year 05
27.11.1990Renewal fee patent year 06
26.11.1991Renewal fee patent year 07
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipNL05.02.1992
[1995/32]
Former [1993/14]GB05.02.1992
NL05.02.1992
Former [1992/37]NL05.02.1992
Documents cited:Search[A]DE3338718  (MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP [JP]);
 [A]US4157563  (BOSSELAAR CORNELIS A [NL]);
 [AD]FR2070661  (SOC GEN SEMICONDUTTORI SPA [IT]);
 [AD]GB2131603  (PHILIPS ELECTRONIC ASSOCIATED)
 [A]  - NEUES AUS DER TECHNIK, no. 4, 1st August 1975, page 2, Würzburg, DE; "Erhöhung der Durchbruchspannung eines planaren PN-Überganges"
 [A]  - IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS, vol. EDL-2, no. 9, September 1981, pages 219-221, IEEE, New York, US; F.A. SELIM: "High-voltage, large-area planar devices"
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