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EP0314515 - Disc drive incorporating automatic wear compensation for a pivoted arm [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 03.12.1994 Database last updated on 19.07.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	26.04.2002	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): ES	published on 12.06.2002 [2002/24]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, INC. 920 Disc Drive Scotts Valley California 95066 / US
	[N/P]
Former [1994/16]	For all designated states SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY, INC. 920 Disc Drive Scotts Valley, California 95066 / US
Former [1989/18]	For all designated states SEGATE TECHNOLOGY, INC. 920 Disc Drive Scotts Valley California 95066 / US
Inventor(s)	01 / Wilkinson, Richard Adolph 1515 Vine Hill Road Santa Cruz California 96065 / US
	[1989/18]
Representative(s)	Bayliss, Geoffrey Cyril, et al BOULT WADE TENNANT Verulam Gardens 70 Gray's Inn Road London WC1X 8BT / GB
	[N/P]
Former [1989/18]	Bayliss, Geoffrey Cyril, et al BOULT, WADE & TENNANT 27 Furnival Street London EC4A 1PQ / GB
Application number, filing date	88310202.2	31.10.1988
	[1989/18]
Priority number, date	US19870115536	30.10.1987 Original published format: US 115536
	[1989/18]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0314515
	Date:	03.05.1989
	Language:	EN
	[1989/18]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0314515
	Date:	12.12.1990
	Language:	EN
	[1990/50]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0314515
	Date:	02.02.1994
	Language:	EN
	[1994/05]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	24.10.1990
Classification	IPC:	G11B21/08	[1989/18]
	CPC:	G11B21/08 (EP,US); G11B21/02 (KR)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, ES, FR, GB, GR, IT, LI, LU, NL, SE [1989/18]
Title	German:	Plattenlaufwerk mit automatischer Abriebkompensation für einen schwenkbaren Arm	[1989/18]
	English:	Disc drive incorporating automatic wear compensation for a pivoted arm	[1989/18]
	French:	Entraînement à disque comportant une compensation automatique d'usure pour un bras pivotant	[1989/18]
Examination procedure	03.01.1991	Examination requested [1991/10]
	27.02.1992	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	11.08.1992	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	22.03.1993	Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
	03.08.1993	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	28.10.1993	Fee for grant paid
	28.10.1993	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)	03.11.1994	No opposition filed within time limit [1995/04]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	29.10.1990	Renewal fee patent year 03
	21.10.1991	Renewal fee patent year 04
	26.10.1992	Renewal fee patent year 05
	17.09.1993	Renewal fee patent year 06
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	AT	02.02.1994
	BE	02.02.1994
	CH	02.02.1994
	ES	02.02.1994
	GR	02.02.1994
	LI	02.02.1994
	NL	02.02.1994
	SE	02.02.1994
	LU	31.10.1994
	[2002/24]
Former [2000/04]	AT	02.02.1994
	BE	02.02.1994
	CH	02.02.1994
	GR	02.02.1994
	LI	02.02.1994
	NL	02.02.1994
	SE	02.02.1994
	LU	31.10.1994
Former [1995/10]	AT	02.02.1994
	BE	02.02.1994
	CH	02.02.1994
	LI	02.02.1994
	NL	02.02.1994
	SE	02.02.1994
Former [1994/49]	AT	02.02.1994
	BE	02.02.1994
	CH	02.02.1994
	LI	02.02.1994
	SE	02.02.1994
Former [1994/47]	AT	02.02.1994
	CH	02.02.1994
	LI	02.02.1994
	SE	02.02.1994
Former [1994/46]	AT	02.02.1994
	SE	02.02.1994
Former [1994/45]	SE	02.02.1994
Documents cited:	Search	[Y]DE1084953 (SIEMENS AG);
		[Y]US3449734 (FREY KARL A, et al);
		[A]US4669328 (KISHI TORU [JP], et al)
		[A] - IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, vol. 28, no. 6, November 1985, pages 2441-2442, New York, US; "Bi-planar stabilization of the head carriage of a floppy disk drive"

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