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Torsional damping apparatus, especially for motor vehicles

EP 0778427 B1 · Applicant: VALEO

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  • Filed November 28, 1996 and granted June 6, 2001. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 28, 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 28, 2022.
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FiledNovember 28, 1996
PublishedJune 11, 1997
GrantedJune 6, 2001
Term endedNovember 28, 2016
Application numberEP 96119074
Classification (CPC)F16F15/129 +1 more

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