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EP About this file: EP0399738

EP0399738 - Analogue to digital converter [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application is deemed to be withdrawn
Status updated on  20.04.1993
Database last updated on 11.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip20.04.1993Application deemed to be withdrawnpublished on 09.06.1993 [1993/23]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
GEC-MARCONI LIMITED
The Grove, Warren Lane Stanmore
Middlesex HA7 4LY / GB
[N/P]
Former [1990/48]For all designated states
GEC-MARCONI LIMITED
The Grove, Warren Lane
Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 4LY / GB
Inventor(s)01 / Thurston, Andrew Mark
38 Foxglove Way
Springfield, Chelmsford Essex / GB
[1990/48]
Representative(s)Waters, Jeffrey, et al
The General Electric Company plc
GEC Patent Department
Waterhouse Lane
Chelmsford, Essex CM1 2QX / GB
[N/P]
Former [1990/48]Waters, Jeffrey, et al
The General Electric Company plc GEC Patent Department Waterhouse Lane
Chelmsford, Essex CM1 2QX / GB
Application number, filing date90305436.918.05.1990
[1990/48]
Priority number, dateGB1989001213726.05.1989         Original published format: GB 8912137
GB1990000919724.04.1990         Original published format: GB 9009197
[1990/48]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0399738
Date:28.11.1990
Language:EN
[1990/48]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0399738
Date:08.05.1991
Language:EN
[1991/19]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP19.03.1991
ClassificationIPC:H03M3/02
[1990/48]
CPC:
H03M3/3283 (EP,US); H03M3/408 (EP,US); H03M3/43 (EP,US);
H03M3/438 (EP,US); H03M3/454 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesAT,   BE,   CH,   DE,   DK,   ES,   FR,   GR,   IT,   LI,   LU,   NL,   SE [1990/48]
TitleGerman:Analog-/Digitalwandler[1990/48]
English:Analogue to digital converter[1990/48]
French:Convertisseur analogique-numérique[1990/48]
File destroyed:12.06.1999
Examination procedure25.05.1991Examination requested  [1991/30]
01.12.1992Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect  [1993/23]
04.01.1993Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: renewal fee not paid in time  [1993/23]
Fees paidPenalty fee
Additional fee for renewal fee
01.06.199203   M06   Not yet paid
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Documents cited:Search[XP]WO8907368  (MOTOROLA INC [US]);
 [A]EP0092879  (TRT TELECOM RADIO ELECTR [FR])
 [X]  - NEUES AUS DER TECHNIK, no. 3, 15th June 1983, page 3, Würzburg, DE; "Delta-sigma-modulation"
 [XP]  - ELECTRONICS LETTERS, vol. 25, no. 23, 9th November 1989, pages 1560-1561, Hitchin, GB; R. SCHREIBER et al.: "Bandpass sigma-delta modulation"
 [A]  - IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, vol. SC-22, no. 6, December 1987, pages 921-929, New York, US; Y. MATSUYA et al.: "A 16-bit oversampling A-to-D conversion technology using triple-integrateion noise shaping"
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