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Pair of earphones

Granted 11 Aug 2009 · no office action yet

Assignee: SMK Corporation

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Inventors: Masaji Komuro, Kenji Murata, Kenji Hatano, Takeshi Matsuda · Examiner: Paula Greene · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/292,765
filed 25 Oct 2007
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US D598010
granted 11 Aug 2009

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The file of this patent contains at least one drawing/photograph executed in color. Copies of this patent with color drawing(s)/photograph(s) will be provided by the Office upon request and payment of the necessary fee. This patent otherwise provided with black and white line drawings that include regions with cross-hatched surface shading which, when viewed in the drawings' proper orientation as indicated by the figure labeling, indicate the colors for those regions as illustrated in the color drawings. The correspondence of colors and cross-hatching is provided with reference to FIG. 1 below.

FIG. 1 is a top plan view thereof, in which vertically cross-hatched surface shading applied to a region of an uppermost component of the earphone indicates the color red and horizontally cross-hatched surface shading applied to a region of a lowermost component of the earphone indicates the color blue;

FIG. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a back side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a front side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top front perspective view thereof in which, as in FIG. 1 , vertically cross-hatched surface shading applied to a region of an uppermost component of the earphone indicates the color red and horizontally cross-hatched surface shading applied to a region of a lowermost component of the earphone indicates the color blue;

FIG. 8 is a top back perspective view thereof;

FIG. 9 is a bottom back perspective view thereof;

FIG. 10 is a bottom front perspective view thereof;

FIG. 11 is a magnified top view thereof;

FIG. 12 is a magnified bottom view thereof;

FIG. 13 is a magnified left side view thereof;

FIG. 14 is a magnified right side view thereof;

FIG. 15 is a magnified back view thereof;

FIG. 16 is a magnified front view thereof;

FIG. 17 is a front top magnified view thereof;

FIG. 18 is a back top magnified view thereof;

FIG. 19 is a back bottom magnified view thereof; and,

FIG. 20 is a front bottom magnified view thereof.

In each of FIGS. 1 through 10 , the broken lines illustrating other portions of the pair of earphones are for illustrative purposes only, and form no part of the claimed design.

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