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Hydraulic tensioner with pressure relief valve

EP 0952375 B1 · Applicant: BORG-WARNER AUTOMOTIVE, INC.

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  • Filed April 14, 1999 and granted June 11, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 14, 2019.
  • 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 October 14, 2024.
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FiledApril 14, 1999
PublishedOctober 27, 1999
GrantedJune 11, 2003
Term endedApril 14, 2019
Application numberEP 99302897
Classification (CPC)F16H7/0848

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