Flexible housing
CA 2018171 C · Owner: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. · Inventors: Martin, James Duncan Shaw
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The flexible housing for use in protecting one or more, microwave transmission lines in a pressurised environment comprises a conduit (10) contained within a protective outer jacket (16). The conduit (10) is constructed of a plurality of conduit segments (18) each segment having an opening (28) therethrough the, segments (18) being arranged in series and caused to abut adjacent segments in such a way that the opening (28) through each segment (18) is in communication with the openings through each of the adjacent segments so as to provide a passage to contain a microwave transmission line. Each segment (18) is flexibly linked to its adjacent segments by coupling means (34).
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Why it's free to use
- Filed June 4, 1990 and granted October 25, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 4, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 4, 2012.
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