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Magnetic absolute position encoder

EP 0382856 B1 · Applicant: FANUC LTD.

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  • Filed July 26, 1989 and granted November 19, 1992. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 26, 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 January 26, 2015.
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FiledJuly 26, 1989
PublishedAugust 22, 1990
GrantedNovember 19, 1992
Term endedJuly 26, 2009
Application numberEP 89908854
Classification (CPC)G01D5/24409

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