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Variable valve timing with actuator locking for internal combustion engine

EP 1065348 B1 · Applicant: BorgWarner Inc.

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  • Filed June 19, 2000 and granted May 21, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 19, 2020.
  • 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, 2025.
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FiledJune 19, 2000
PublishedJanuary 3, 2001
GrantedMay 21, 2003
Term endedJune 19, 2020
Application numberEP 00305164
Classification (CPC)F01L1/34409

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