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Protective circuit for control unit power supply

EP 0078620 B1 · Applicant: FANUC LTD.

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  • Filed October 15, 1982 and granted July 30, 1986. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 15, 2002.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by April 15, 2008.
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FiledOctober 15, 1982
PublishedMay 11, 1983
GrantedJuly 30, 1986
Term endedOctober 15, 2002
Application numberEP 82305487
Classification (CPC)H02H9/041

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1983198519871989199119931995199719992001Application filedOct 15, 1982PublishedMay 11, 1983Patent grantedJuly 30, 1986Term endedOct 15, 2002

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