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EP0237261 - Silicon nitride sintered bodies [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  28.03.1991
Database last updated on 30.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip28.03.1991No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 15.05.1991 [1991/20]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
2-56, Suda-cho, Mizuho-ku
Nagoya-shi, Aichi 4678530 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1987/38]For all designated states
NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
2-56, Suda-cho, Mizuho-ku
Nagoya-shi, Aichi 467 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Matsui, Minori
93 Yashirodai 1-chome Meito-Ku
Nagoya City Aichi Pref. / JP
[1987/38]
Representative(s)Paget, Hugh Charles Edward, et al
Mewburn Ellis LLP
City Tower
40 Basinghall Street
London EC2V 5DE / GB
[N/P]
Former [1987/38]Paget, Hugh Charles Edward, et al
MEWBURN ELLIS York House 23 Kingsway
London WC2B 6HP / GB
Application number, filing date87301879.004.03.1987
[1987/38]
Priority number, dateJP1986004741006.03.1986         Original published format: JP 4741086
[1987/38]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0237261
Date:16.09.1987
Language:EN
[1987/38]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0237261
Date:09.12.1987
Language:EN
[1987/50]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0237261
Date:06.06.1990
Language:EN
[1990/23]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP23.10.1987
ClassificationIPC:C04B35/58
[1987/38]
CPC:
C04B35/584 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   GB,   SE [1987/38]
TitleGerman:Gesinterte Siliciumnitridkörper[1987/38]
English:Silicon nitride sintered bodies[1987/38]
French:Corps frittés en nitrure de silicium[1987/38]
Examination procedure11.03.1988Examination requested  [1988/18]
05.05.1989Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
01.10.1989Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
25.10.1989Communication of intention to grant the patent
12.01.1990Fee for grant paid
12.01.1990Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)07.03.1991No opposition filed within time limit [1991/20]
Fees paidRenewal fee
23.03.1989Renewal fee patent year 03
19.03.1990Renewal fee patent year 04
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Documents cited:Search[AD]  - AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY BULLETIN, vol. 62, no. 12, December 1983, pages 1369-1374, Columbus, Ohio, US; F.F. LANGE "Fabrication and properties of dense polyphase silicon nitride"
 [A]  - AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY BULLETIN, vol. 59, no. 2, February 1980, pages 239, 240, 249, Columbus, Ohio, US; F.F. LANGE "Si3N4-Ce203-Si02 materials: Phase relations and strength"
 [A]  - JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, vol. 68, no. 7, July 1985, pages 413-418, Columbus, Ohio, US; R.K. GOVILA et al.: "Fracture of Yttria-doped, sintered reaction-bonded silicon nitride"
 [A]  - JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, vol. 63, no. 1-2, January-February 1980, pages 35-37, Columbus, Ohio, US; L.J. GAUCKLER et al.: "The System Si3N4-Si02-Y203"
 [A]  - JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE, vol. 20, no. 10, October 1985, pages 3545-3556, London, GB; L.K.L. FALK et al.: "Development of microstructure during the fabrication of Si3N4 by nitridation and pressureless sintering of Si:Si3N4 compacts"
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