Expired European patentEurope
Piezoelectric crystal element, and method of making the same
EP 0321438 B1 · Applicant: AVL Gesellschaft für Verbrennungskraftmaschinen und Messtechnik mbH.Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c. Hans List
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 November 14, 1988 and granted January 22, 1992. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 14, 2008.
- 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 May 14, 2014.
- 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.
FiledNovember 14, 1988
PublishedJune 21, 1989
GrantedJanuary 22, 1992
Term endedNovember 14, 2008
Application numberEP 88890287
Classification (CPC)H10N30/853
Timeline
Timeline From EPO dates
Sources & verification
Official EPO records
Everything on this page comes from the EPO record linked above. EPO data used under CC BY 4.0.