Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Encoder

EP 1767904 B1 · Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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.

Google PatentsEPO PDF

Why it's free to use

  • Filed July 8, 2005 and granted December 3, 2014. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 8, 2025.
  • Supplementary protection certificates extend only medicine and crop-protection patents, and it isn't classified as either.
  • 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.
FiledJuly 8, 2005
PublishedMarch 28, 2007
GrantedDecember 3, 2014
Term endedJuly 8, 2025
Application numberEP 05765578
Classification (CPC)G01D5/34794

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

2006200820102012201420162018202020222024Application filedJuly 8, 2005PublishedMarch 28, 2007Patent grantedDec 3, 2014Term endedJuly 8, 2025

Sources & verification

Official EPO records

Full published documentClaims, description and drawings as a PDF.EPOEuropean Patent RegisterProcedure, status, file inspection and legal events.EPOLinked open EP data recordThe bibliographic record this page is built from.EPO

Cross-check elsewhere

Google PatentsFull text, worldwide family, citing patents and legal events.patents.google.comEspacenetNational family members and their legal status.European Patent Office

Everything on this page comes from the EPO record linked above. EPO data used under CC BY 4.0.