Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Removable force-fitting joint for the components of a heald frame for weaving looms

EP 0882822 B1 · Applicant: Nuova O.M.V. Officine Meccaniche Vilminore S.r.l.

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.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed December 17, 1997 and granted July 19, 2000. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 17, 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 June 17, 2023.
  • 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 17, 1997
PublishedDecember 9, 1998
GrantedJuly 19, 2000
Term endedDecember 17, 2017
Application numberEP 97122305
Classification (CPC)D03C9/0675

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1998200020022004200620082010201220142016Application filedDec 17, 1997PublishedDec 9, 1998Patent grantedJuly 19, 2000Term endedDec 17, 2017

Sources & verification