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Power train system for a vehicle and method for operating same

EP 1586477 B1 · Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

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  • Filed September 22, 1998 and granted March 27, 2013. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 22, 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 March 22, 2024.
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FiledSeptember 22, 1998
PublishedOctober 19, 2005
GrantedMarch 27, 2013
Term endedSeptember 22, 2018
Application numberEP 05011491
Classification (CPC)F02B67/00 +2 more

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