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Air conditioner having refrigerant pressure control means and driving control method therefor

EP 0774631 B1 · Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed November 14, 1996 and granted January 26, 2005. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 14, 2016.
  • 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 May 14, 2022.
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FiledNovember 14, 1996
PublishedMay 21, 1997
GrantedJanuary 26, 2005
Term endedNovember 14, 2016
Application numberEP 96118289
Classification (CPC)F25B9/006 +1 more

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