Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Disposable body-warmer

EP 0526637 B1 · Applicant: KIRIBAI CHEMICAL INDUSTRY 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 February 25, 1991 and granted February 5, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 25, 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 August 25, 2016.
  • 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.
FiledFebruary 25, 1991
PublishedFebruary 10, 1993
GrantedFebruary 5, 1997
Term endedFebruary 25, 2011
Application numberEP 91905335
Classification (CPC)A61F7/034

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1992199419961998200020022004200620082010Application filedFeb 25, 1991PublishedFeb 10, 1993Patent grantedFeb 5, 1997Term endedFeb 25, 2011

Sources & verification