Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Soft, heating floor-mats

EP 0261985 B1 · Applicant: TOKYO GAS CO., LTD.

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 September 25, 1987 and granted January 23, 1991. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 25, 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 March 25, 2013.
  • 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.
FiledSeptember 25, 1987
PublishedMarch 30, 1988
GrantedJanuary 23, 1991
Term endedSeptember 25, 2007
Application numberEP 87308520
Classification (CPC)F24D3/16

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1988199019921994199619982000200220042006Application filedSep 25, 1987PublishedMarch 30, 1988Patent grantedJan 23, 1991Term endedSep 25, 2007

Sources & verification