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EP 1 620 255 A1

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(43) Date of publication: 01.02.2006 Bulletin 2006/05 (21) Application number: 04731403.4 (22) Date of filing: 06.05.2004

(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):  B32B 3/24(1968.09) B32B 5/28(1968.09) (86) International application number: PCT/GB2004/001962 (87) International publication number: WO 2004/098870 (18.11.2004 Gazette 2004/47)

(84) Designated Contracting States: DE FR GB IT (30) Priority: 07.05.2003 GB 0310450 (71) Applicants: SIEMENS MAGNET TECHNOLOGY LTD Wharf Road Eynsham Witney Oxfordshire 0X29 4BP (GB) Crompton Technology Group Ltd. Banbury, Oxfordshire OX16 4SU (GB)	(72) Inventors: ATKINS, Andrew Farquhar Chacombe, Nr Banbury, Oxon OX17 2SZ (GB) DAVIDSON, Roger Abingdon, Oxon OX14 2ND (GB) (74) Representative: French, Clive Harry  Siemens AG, PO Box 22 16 34 80506 München 80506 München (DE)