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Intake and exhaust device with multiple sections of specific geometry, for internal combustion engines

EP 0882178 B1 · Applicant: Centro Ricerche Tecnologiche S.R.L.

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  • Filed November 24, 1997 and granted January 16, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 24, 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 May 24, 2023.
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FiledNovember 24, 1997
PublishedDecember 9, 1998
GrantedJanuary 16, 2002
Term endedNovember 24, 2017
Application numberEP 97951959
Classification (CPC)F02M35/10301 +2 more

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