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Vibration wave detecting method and vibration wave detector

EP 0959332 A2 · Applicant: Sumitomo Metal Industries Limited

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  • Filed May 22, 1999 and never granted as a European patent. Had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 22, 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 November 22, 2024.
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FiledMay 22, 1999
PublishedNovember 24, 1999
GrantedNever granted
Term endedMay 22, 2019
Application numberEP 99110075
Classification (CPC)G01H11/06 +1 more

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