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Process for controlling and regulating the load take-up in an automatic gearbox

EP 0670975 B1 · Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN Aktiengesellschaft

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  • Filed December 1, 1993 and granted July 9, 1997. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 1, 2013.
  • 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 June 1, 2019.
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FiledDecember 1, 1993
PublishedSeptember 13, 1995
GrantedJuly 9, 1997
Term endedDecember 1, 2013
Application numberEP 94901922
Classification (CPC)F16H61/061

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