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Automobile tire

Granted 14 Mar 2006 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD. (Furukawa) · originally Furukawa Co., Ltd.

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Inventors: Izumi Kuramochi, Takumi Morito, Hiroshi Furusawa, Hirohisa Hazama · Examiner: Robert M. Spear · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/218,777
filed 8 Dec 2004
Publication
Not published
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US D516997
granted 14 Mar 2006

Life of the patent

2 dated events
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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front view of an…

FIG. 1 is a front view of an automobile tire, showing the new design, a top plan view thereof and bottom plan view thereof appearing the same as the front view;

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the automobile tire;

FIG. 3 is a left side view of the automobile tire:

FIG. 4 is a right side view of the automobile tire;

FIG. 5 is a fragmentary front view of the automobile tire, showing in enlargement the portion of 5—5 in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the automobile tire, taken along line 6—6 and in the direction of arrows in FIG. 5; and,

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the automobile tire.

The broken line showing of a sidewall and inner bead represents environmental structure only and form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

3 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/550D12/554D12/551

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Pendency
1.3 y
461 days filing → grant
Office actions
1
non-final + final
Responses
1
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Examiner
Robert M. Spear
art unit 2913 · TC 2900
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