Expired European patentEurope
Quick-release locking mechanism for use in spacecraft
EP 0454564 B1 · Applicant: AEROSPATIALE Société Nationale Industrielle
Overview
The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size
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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.
Why it's free to use
- Filed April 23, 1991 and granted March 9, 1994. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 23, 2011.
- 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 23, 2016.
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FiledApril 23, 1991
PublishedOctober 30, 1991
GrantedMarch 9, 1994
Term endedApril 23, 2011
Application numberEP 91401068
Classification (CPC)F16B31/00 +2 more
Timeline
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Sources & verification
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