Gas spring
CA 2083552 C · Owner: Cotter, Jonathan P. · Inventors: Cotter, Patrick J.; Cotter, Jonathan P.
Overview
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A gas spring with a piston reciprocable in a chamber of a casing, a sealing assembly at the rear end of the casing through which the piston rod extends, and an end cap closing the rear end of the casing. The sealing assembly has a reinforcing ring having a sealing ring on one side and a wiper on the other side. The sealing ring and wiper are portions of a single body of elastomeric material molded to the reinforcing ring and integrally connected through one or more openings in the reinforcing ring. The casing wall is rolled radially inwardly over the sealing assembly into pressure contact with the reinforcing ring so that the sealing assembly becomes in effect an end cap for the front end …
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- Filed November 23, 1992 and granted February 11, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 23, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 23, 2014.
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