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EP0315979 - Electrical connecting apparatus for steering wheel and steering column [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 24.12.1993 Database last updated on 08.04.2026
Most recent event Tooltip	24.12.1993	No opposition filed within time limit	published on 16.02.1994 [1994/07]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO 1, Aza Noda Oaza Toyota Oguchi-cho Niwa-gun Aichi-ken 480-0195 / JP
	[N/P]
Former [1993/08]	For all designated states KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO 1, Aza Noda Oaza Toyota Oguchi-cho Niwa-gun Aichi-ken / JP
Former [1989/20]	For all designated states KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO 1, Aza Noda Oaza Toyota Oguchi-cho Niwa-gun Aichi-ken / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / Suzuki, Masaru K.K. Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho 1, Aza Noda Oaza Toyota Oguchi-cho Niwa-gun Aichi-ken / JP
	[1989/20]
Representative(s)	Glawe, Delfs, Moll Partnerschaft mbB von Patent- und Rechtsanwälten Postfach 26 01 62 80058 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [1989/20]	Glawe, Delfs, Moll & Partner Patentanwälte Postfach 26 01 62 D-80058 München / DE
Application number, filing date	88118682.9	09.11.1988
	[1989/20]
Priority number, date	JP19870170918	09.11.1987 Original published format: JP 17091887
	[1989/20]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0315979
	Date:	17.05.1989
	Language:	EN
	[1989/20]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0315979
	Date:	27.12.1990
	Language:	EN
	[1990/52]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0315979
	Date:	24.02.1993
	Language:	EN
	[1993/08]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	12.11.1990
Classification	IPC:	B60R16/02, H01R35/00	[1990/50]
	CPC:	B60R16/027 (EP,US)
	Former IPC [1989/20]	B60R16/02
Designated contracting states	DE, GB [1989/20]
Title	German:	Stromverbindungsanordnung für Lenkrad und Lenksäule	[1989/20]
	English:	Electrical connecting apparatus for steering wheel and steering column	[1989/20]
	French:	Appareil de transmission d'électricité entre volant et colonne de direction	[1989/20]
File destroyed:	03.03.2001
Examination procedure	10.12.1990	Examination requested [1991/06]
	23.07.1991	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	23.10.1991	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	27.01.1992	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	06.05.1992	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	15.07.1992	Fee for grant paid
	15.07.1992	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	25.11.1993	No opposition filed within time limit [1994/07]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	19.11.1990	Renewal fee patent year 03
	18.11.1991	Renewal fee patent year 04
	20.11.1992	Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:	Search	[AP] JP62238164
		[AP] PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 12, no. 109 (M-682) 08 April 1988, & JP-A-62 238164 (HONDA) 19 October 1987 [AP]

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