Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Governor for internal combustion engine

EP 0178058 B1 · Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed August 28, 1985 and granted January 9, 1991. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 28, 2005.
  • 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 February 28, 2011.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledAugust 28, 1985
PublishedApril 16, 1986
GrantedJanuary 9, 1991
Term endedAugust 28, 2005
Application numberEP 85306081
Classification (CPC)F02D41/0097 +1 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1986198819901992199419961998200020022004Application filedAug 28, 1985PublishedApril 16, 1986Patent grantedJan 9, 1991Term endedAug 28, 2005

Sources & verification