Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Contact arrangement for current limiting low-tension power circuit breakers

EP 0243980 B1 · Applicant: Licentia Patent-Verwaltungs-GmbH

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 April 30, 1987 and granted July 29, 1992. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 30, 2007.
  • 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 October 30, 2012.
  • 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.
FiledApril 30, 1987
PublishedNovember 4, 1987
GrantedJuly 29, 1992
Term endedApril 30, 2007
Application numberEP 87106355
Classification (CPC)H01H77/102

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1988199019921994199619982000200220042006Application filedApril 30, 1987PublishedNov 4, 1987Patent grantedJuly 29, 1992Term endedApril 30, 2007

Sources & verification