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Apparatus for forming an explosively expanded tube-tube sheet joint including a fibre reinforced insert having a closed end

EP 0117153 B1 · Applicant: FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY CORPORATION

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  • Filed February 21, 1984 and granted July 8, 1987. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 21, 2004.
  • 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 August 21, 2009.
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FiledFebruary 21, 1984
PublishedAugust 29, 1984
GrantedJuly 8, 1987
Term endedFebruary 21, 2004
Application numberEP 84301110
Classification (CPC)B23K20/085

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1985198719891991199319951997199920012003Application filedFeb 21, 1984PublishedAug 29, 1984Patent grantedJuly 8, 1987Term endedFeb 21, 2004

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