EP0679849 - Method and apparatus for dehydrating and drying a wet article [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 28.01.2000 Database last updated on 15.06.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.01.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 06.02.2008 [2008/06] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEIBU GIKEN 1043-5 Wada Sasaguri-machi Kasuya-gun Fukuoka-Ken / JP | For all designated states Kuma, Toshimi 10-11 3-chome Wakamiya, Higashi-ku Fukuoka-shi Fukuoka-ken / JP | [N/P] |
Former [1995/44] | For all designated states KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEIBU GIKEN 1043-5 Wada Sasaguri-machi Kasuya-gun Fukuoka-Ken / JP | ||
For all designated states Kuma, Toshimi 10-11 3-chome Wakamiya, Higashi-ku Fukuoka-shi Fukuoka-ken / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Kuma, Toshimi 10-11 3-chome Wakamiya, Higashi-ku Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka-ken / JP | 02 /
Kakuya, Shinji 69-6 Kashiwabara Sayama-shi, Saitama-ken / JP | [1995/44] | Representative(s) | Johnson, Terence Leslie Marks & Clerk LLP 90 Long Acre London WC2E 9RA / GB | [N/P] |
Former [1995/44] | Johnson, Terence Leslie Edward Evans & Co. Chancery House 53-64 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1SD / GB | Application number, filing date | 95302865.1 | 27.04.1995 | [1995/44] | Priority number, date | JP19940126742 | 30.04.1994 Original published format: JP 12674294 | JP19940222403 | 12.08.1994 Original published format: JP 22240394 | [1995/44] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0679849 | Date: | 02.11.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/44] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0679849 | Date: | 03.04.1996 | [1996/14] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0679849 | Date: | 24.03.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/12] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 15.02.1996 | Classification | IPC: | F26B5/12, F26B5/14, F26B13/28, F26B13/30 | [1995/44] | CPC: |
F26B13/28 (EP,US);
F26B13/30 (EP,US);
F26B5/00 (KR);
F26B5/12 (EP,US);
F26B5/14 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, SE [1995/44] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Entwässerung und Trocknung eines feuchten Gegenstandes | [1995/44] | English: | Method and apparatus for dehydrating and drying a wet article | [1995/44] | French: | Procédé et dispositif pour la déshydratation et le séchage d'un article humide | [1995/44] | Examination procedure | 19.09.1996 | Examination requested [1996/46] | 16.04.1997 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 17.10.1997 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 25.05.1998 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 23.09.1998 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 05.11.1998 | Fee for grant paid | 05.11.1998 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 28.12.1999 | No opposition filed within time limit [2000/11] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 12.04.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 14.04.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 |
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Former [2002/26] | ES | 24.03.1999 | Documents cited: | Search | [XY]US1658485 (HAYWARD RALPH A) [X] 1,3,7-9,16 * column W * [Y] 4,12,18,19; | [XY]US4477287 (KUSH DONALD C [US], et al) [X] 1,3,7 * column W * [Y] 2,4,6; | [XY]FR2453926 (ALBANY INT CORP [US]) [X] 13,14 * the whole document * [Y] 2,6; | [Y]FR2124947 (ANDRITZ AG MASCHF) [Y] 12 * the whole document *; | [XY]US3986274 (HOLM WILLIAM J) [X] 1-3 * column W * [Y] 18,19; | [X]DE3517541 (BARTLING GERHARD) [X] 1,3,4,7 * the whole document *; | [XA]US4183147 (KAWAGUCHI YUKIYOSHI [JP]) [X] 1,3 * column W * [A] 2; | [PX]EP0647524 (DEMOORE HOWARD W [US]) [PX] 1,3,7 * column W *; | [A]EP0513632 (SUNDWIGER EISEN MASCHINEN [DE]); | [A]DE3807856 (VOITH GMBH J M [DE]); | [A]US3733711 (HAYTHORNTHWAITE J) |