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EP0455218 - Method and apparatus for measuring a phase-modulated signal [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  11.11.1995
Database last updated on 25.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip30.11.1995Lapse of the patent in a contracting statepublished on 17.01.1996 [1996/03]
Applicant(s)For:CH  DE  FR  IT  LI  NL  SE 
Firma Carl Zeiss
D-73446 Oberkochen / DE
For:GB 
CARL ZEISS-STIFTUNG HANDELND ALS CARL ZEISS
D-89518 Heidenheim (Brenz) / DE
[1991/45]
Inventor(s)01 / Küchel, Michael, Dr.
Keplerstrasse 3
W-7082 Oberkochen / DE
[1991/45]
Application number, filing date91107011.830.04.1991
[1991/45]
Priority number, dateDE1990401401902.05.1990         Original published format: DE 4014019
[1991/45]
Filing languageDE
Procedural languageDE
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0455218
Date:06.11.1991
Language:DE
[1991/45]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0455218
Date:11.01.1995
Language:DE
[1995/02]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP06.08.1991
ClassificationIPC:G01J9/02
[1991/45]
CPC:
G01J9/02 (EP,US); G01B11/2441 (EP,US); G01B11/25 (EP,US);
G01B9/02032 (EP,US); G01B9/02081 (EP,US); G06T7/521 (EP,US);
G01J2009/0249 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting statesCH,   DE,   FR,   GB,   IT,   LI,   NL,   SE [1991/45]
TitleGerman:Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Messung eines phasenmodulierten Signals[1991/45]
English:Method and apparatus for measuring a phase-modulated signal[1991/45]
French:Procédé et dispositif pour le mesurage d'un signal modulé en phase[1991/45]
Examination procedure10.01.1992Examination requested  [1992/11]
28.04.1993Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
03.09.1993Reply to a communication from the examining division
19.11.1993Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M03)
01.02.1994Reply to a communication from the examining division
07.03.1994Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
07.07.1994Communication of intention to grant the patent
09.09.1994Fee for grant paid
09.09.1994Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)12.10.1995No opposition filed within time limit [1996/01]
Fees paidRenewal fee
25.03.1993Renewal fee patent year 03
21.03.1994Renewal fee patent year 04
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipSE11.04.1995
[1996/03]
Documents cited:Search[A]DD262080  (AKAD WISSENSCHAFTEN DDR [DD]);
 [A]DE3707331  (ZEISS CARL FA [DE]);
 [AD]US4744659  (KITABAYASHI JUNICHI [JP])
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, unexamined applications, P field, Band 12, Nr. 284, 4. August 1988 THE PATENT OFFICE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT Seite 67 P 740
 [AD]  - OPTICAL ENGINEERING, Band 23, Nr. 4, Juli/August 1984 K.H. WOMACK "Interferametric phase measurement using spatial synchronous de- tection" Seiten 391-395
 [AD]  - APPLIED OPTICS, Band 22, Nr. 21, November 1983 J. SCHWIDER et al. "Digital wave-front measu- ring interferametry: same systematic error sources" Seiten 3421-3432
Examination   - PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPIE, vol. 680, Katherine Creath: "Comparison of Phase Measurement Algorithms", USA, 1986
    - APPLIED OPTICS, vol. 24, no. 18, Y. Cheng et al.: "Phase shifter calibration in phase-shifting interferometry", 15.09.1985, Seiten 3049-3052
    - PROGRESS IN OPTICS, vol. XXVI, ed.: E. Wolf; Katherine Creath: "Phase-Measurement Interferometry Techniques", Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, Oxford, New York, Tokyo, 1988
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