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EP0394556 - Gear change device for stepped gearing of vehicles [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  22.12.1994
Database last updated on 11.04.2026
Most recent event   Tooltip22.12.1994No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 15.02.1995 [1995/07]
Applicant(s)For:DE  IT  SE 
FORD-WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Henry-Ford-Strasse 1
50725 Köln / DE
For:GB 
Ford Motor Company Limited
Eagle Way Brentwood
Essex CM13 3BW / GB
For:FR 
FORD FRANCE S. A.
344, avenue Napoléon Bonaparte
92506 Rueil-Malmaison / FR
For:ES 
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
One Parklane Boulevard Parklane Towers East Dearborn
Michigan 48126 / US
[N/P]
Former [1990/44]For:DE  IT  SE 
FORD-WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
D-50725 Köln / DE
For:GB 
FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
Eagle Way
Brentwood, Essex CM13 3BW / GB
For:FR 
FORD FRANCE S. A.
344, avenue Napoléon Bonaparte
F-92506 Rueil-Malmaison / FR
For:ES 
Ford Motor Company
One Parklane Boulevard Parklane Towers East
Dearborn Michigan 48126 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Schnell, Martin
Milanweg 11
D-5024 Pulheim / DE
02 / Sabel, Gustav
Pescher Pfad 5
D-5000 Köln 71 / DE
03 / Winter-Peter, Wolfgang
Vorgebirgsstrasse 61
D-5000 Köln 1 / DE
[1990/44]
Representative(s)Messulam, Alec Moses, et al
Harrison IP Limited
3 Ebor House
London Ebor Business Park
Millfield Lane
Nether Poppleton York YO26 6QY / GB
[N/P]
Former [1993/36]Messulam, Alec Moses, et al
A. Messulam & Co. 24 Broadway
Leigh on Sea Essex SS9 1BN / GB
Former [1990/44]Ritzkowsky, Harald, Dipl.-Ing.
Ford-Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Patentabteilung NH/DRP, Henry-Ford-Strasse 1
D-50725 Köln / DE
Application number, filing date89123239.915.12.1989
[1990/44]
Priority number, dateDE1989391326922.04.1989         Original published format: DE 3913269
[1990/44]
Filing languageDE
Procedural languageDE
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0394556
Date:31.10.1990
Language:DE
[1990/44]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0394556
Date:07.08.1991
Language:DE
[1991/32]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0394556
Date:16.02.1994
Language:DE
[1994/07]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP20.06.1991
ClassificationIPC:F16H61/26, F16H63/20
[1991/32]
CPC:
F16H63/20 (EP,US); F16H63/38 (EP,US); F16H2059/0295 (EP,US);
F16H2061/185 (EP,US); F16H2061/242 (EP,US); F16H2063/005 (EP,US);
F16H2063/3076 (EP,US); F16H61/24 (EP,US); F16H63/3408 (EP,US);
Y10T74/20128 (EP,US); Y10T74/20159 (EP,US) (-)
Former IPC [1990/44]F16H61/26
Designated contracting statesDE,   ES,   FR,   GB,   IT,   SE [1990/44]
TitleGerman:Schaltvorrichtung für Wechselgetriebe von Kraftfahrzeugen[1990/44]
English:Gear change device for stepped gearing of vehicles[1990/44]
French:Dispositif de changement de rapport pour une boîte de vitesse étagée de véhicule[1990/44]
Examination procedure28.06.1991Examination requested  [1991/35]
17.03.1993Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
26.07.1993Communication of intention to grant the patent
02.08.1993Fee for grant paid
02.08.1993Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)18.11.1994No opposition filed within time limit [1995/07]
Fees paidRenewal fee
06.12.1991Renewal fee patent year 03
04.12.1992Renewal fee patent year 04
04.12.1993Renewal fee patent year 05
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