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Ink bottle

Granted 27 Jan 2004 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. · originally Olympus Corporation

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Inventors: Katsumi Sugata, Fumihiro Ueno, Noriko Yokoyama, Akira Yamamoto +1 · Examiner: Caron D. Veynar · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/171,551
filed 22 Nov 2002
Publication
Not published
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US D485858
granted 27 Jan 2004

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of…

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a first embodiment of the ink bottle; the opposite side being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 2 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a right side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a front elevational view showing a state in which a cap is attached to an upper portion thereof;

FIG. 7 is a right side elevational view showing the state in which the cap is attached to the upper portion thereof;

FIG. 8 is a front elevational view showing the state in which the cap is attached to a lower portion thereof;

FIG. 9 is a right side elevational view showing the state in which the cap is attached to the lower portion thereof;

FIG. 10 is a front elevational view of a second embodiment of the ink bottle; the opposite side being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 11 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 12 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 13 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 14 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The broken lines showing the state in which the cap is put on the bottle in FIGS. 6 to 9 are for illustrative only and form no part of the claimed design.

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Classifications

3 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section B — Performing operations; transporting
  • B41J2/175
USPC · US Patent Classification
D18/43D95/23

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Pendency
1.2 y
431 days filing → grant
Office actions
1
non-final + final
Responses
1
no RCE
Examiner
Caron D. Veynar
art unit 2913 · TC 2900
Citations: 8 back · 0 forward

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