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Electrolytic capacitor and method for manufacturing the same

EP 0886288 B1 · Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

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  • Filed June 19, 1998 and granted January 11, 2006. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 19, 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 19, 2023.
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FiledJune 19, 1998
PublishedDecember 23, 1998
GrantedJanuary 11, 2006
Term endedJune 19, 2018
Application numberEP 98111294
Classification (CPC)H01G9/0425

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