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Power steering system with a variable bias between valve elements

EP 0879361 B1 · Applicant: TRW Automotive U.S. LLC

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  • Filed February 27, 1997 and granted June 16, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 27, 2017.
  • 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 August 27, 2022.
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FiledFebruary 27, 1997
PublishedNovember 25, 1998
GrantedJune 16, 2004
Term endedFebruary 27, 2017
Application numberEP 97906776
Classification (CPC)B62D6/02 +1 more

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