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Improved torque damper and damping device equipped with such a torque damper

EP 0883757 B1 · Applicant: VALEO

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  • Filed December 22, 1997 and granted July 17, 2002. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 22, 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 22, 2023.
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FiledDecember 22, 1997
PublishedDecember 16, 1998
GrantedJuly 17, 2002
Term endedDecember 22, 2017
Application numberEP 97952978
Classification (CPC)F16F15/12313

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