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Earphone

Granted 15 Dec 2009 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Smk Corporation · originally SMK Corporation

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

Application
29/326,223
filed 14 Oct 2008
Publication
Not published
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US D606049
granted 15 Dec 2009

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a magnified top view of…

FIG. 1 is a magnified top view of an embodiment of our earphone;

FIG. 2 is a bottom view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is an inverted left side view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a right side view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 5 is a back view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 , rotated in a counterclockwise direction by 90 degrees;

FIG. 6 is a front view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 , rotated in a clockwise direction by 90 degrees;

FIG. 7 is a magnified perspective view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 , as seen from the top, front and right sides;

FIG. 8 is a magnified perspective view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 , as seen from the top, back and left sides;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 , as seen from the bottom, back and right sides;

FIG. 10 is a perspective view of the embodiment of FIG. 1 , as seen from the bottom, front and left sides;

FIG. 11 is a magnified front view of an accessory portion of our earphone as depicted in FIGS. 1 , 7 and 8 , shown separately for ease of illustration;

FIG. 12 is a magnified view of the accessory portion of our earphone as depicted in FIGS. 1 , 7 and 8 , shown separately for ease of illustration; and,

FIG. 13 is a right side view of the accessory portion of our earphone as depicted in FIGS. 1 , 7 and 8 , shown separately for ease of illustration.

In FIGS. 11–13 , broken lines depict environmental subject matter and form no part of the claimed design. The ornamental features of the accessory portion as illustrated in FIGS. 1 , 7 , 8 , 11 and 12 are intended to depict a single ornamental design, which is most clearly depicted in FIGS. 1 and 11 .

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Claims

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Classifications

2 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D14/223D14/205

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Pendency
1.2 y
427 days filing → grant
Office actions
1
non-final + final
Responses
3
no RCE
Examiner
Paula Greene
art unit 2912 · TC 2900
Citations: 39 back · 0 forward

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