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Digital PID process control apparatus

EP 0097053 B1 · Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA

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  • Filed June 14, 1983 and granted November 11, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 14, 2003.
  • 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 December 14, 2008.
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FiledJune 14, 1983
PublishedDecember 28, 1983
GrantedNovember 11, 1987
Term endedJune 14, 2003
Application numberEP 83303418
Classification (CPC)G05B13/042

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1984198619881990199219941996199820002002Application filedJune 14, 1983PublishedDec 28, 1983Patent grantedNov 11, 1987Term endedJune 14, 2003

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