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Apparatus for and method of controlling hydraulic clutch operation in an automatic transmission

EP 0331522 B1 · Applicant: HONDA GIKEN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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  • Filed March 3, 1989 and granted September 16, 1992. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 3, 2009.
  • 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 September 3, 2014.
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FiledMarch 3, 1989
PublishedSeptember 6, 1989
GrantedSeptember 16, 1992
Term endedMarch 3, 2009
Application numberEP 89302166
Classification (CPC)F16H61/061

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