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Method and device for debubbling a liquid using ultrasonic waves

EP 0885641 B1 · Applicant: KONICA CORPORATION

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  • Filed June 16, 1998 and granted January 29, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 16, 2018.
  • 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 December 16, 2023.
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FiledJune 16, 1998
PublishedDecember 23, 1998
GrantedJanuary 29, 2003
Term endedJune 16, 2018
Application numberEP 98110986
Classification (CPC)B01D19/02 +2 more

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