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Energy absorber for motor vehicle steering column

EP 1192072 B1 · Applicant: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

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  • Filed June 12, 2000 and granted November 26, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 12, 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 12, 2025.
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FiledJune 12, 2000
PublishedApril 3, 2002
GrantedNovember 26, 2003
Term endedJune 12, 2020
Application numberEP 00938265
Classification (CPC)F16F7/123 +1 more

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