Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Device for detachable coupling of an implement to the operating arm of an excavator

EP 1012407 B1 · Applicant: Accima AB

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed May 13, 1998 and granted February 18, 2004. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 13, 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 November 13, 2023.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledMay 13, 1998
PublishedJune 28, 2000
GrantedFebruary 18, 2004
Term endedMay 13, 2018
Application numberEP 98923262
Classification (CPC)E02F3/3631 +1 more

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1999200120032005200720092011201320152017Application filedMay 13, 1998PublishedJune 28, 2000Patent grantedFeb 18, 2004Term endedMay 13, 2018

Sources & verification