Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Method for producing a tube for a nuclear fuel assembly and the tubes produced thereby

EP 0720177 B1 · Applicant: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES MATIERES NUCLEAIRES

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.

Google PatentsEPO PDF

Why it's free to use

  • Filed December 26, 1995 and granted April 15, 1998. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 26, 2015.
  • 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 26, 2021.
  • 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.
FiledDecember 26, 1995
PublishedJuly 3, 1996
GrantedApril 15, 1998
Term endedDecember 26, 2015
Application numberEP 95402944
Classification (CPC)G21C3/07

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1996199820002002200420062008201020122014Application filedDec 26, 1995PublishedJuly 3, 1996Patent grantedApril 15, 1998Term endedDec 26, 2015

Sources & verification

Official EPO records

Full published documentClaims, description and drawings as a PDF.EPOEuropean Patent RegisterProcedure, status, file inspection and legal events.EPOLinked open EP data recordThe bibliographic record this page is built from.EPO

Cross-check elsewhere

Google PatentsFull text, worldwide family, citing patents and legal events.patents.google.comEspacenetNational family members and their legal status.European Patent Office

Everything on this page comes from the EPO record linked above. EPO data used under CC BY 4.0.