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Internal combustion engine block having a cylinder liner shunt flow cooling system and method of cooling same

EP 0685031 B1 · Applicant: DETROIT DIESEL CORPORATION

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  • Filed May 24, 1993 and granted December 15, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 24, 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 November 24, 2018.
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FiledMay 24, 1993
PublishedDecember 6, 1995
GrantedDecember 15, 1999
Term endedMay 24, 2013
Application numberEP 93914081
Classification (CPC)F02F1/14

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