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Steering wheel for an automobile

Granted 9 Oct 2018 · no office action yet

Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

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Inventors: Tetsuya Kawahara · Examiner: Melody N Brown · AU 2917 · TC 2900

Application
29/598,668
filed 28 Mar 2017
Publication
Not published
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US D830255
granted 9 Oct 2018

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a left side perspective view…

FIG. 1 is a left side perspective view of a steering wheel for an automobile.

FIG. 2 is a right side perspective view of a steering wheel for an automobile.

FIG. 3 is a front view of a steering wheel for an automobile.

FIG. 4 is a left side view of a steering wheel for an automobile.

FIG. 5 is a right side perspective view of a steering wheel for an automobile.

FIG. 6 is a top plan view of a steering wheel for an automobile; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view of a steering wheel for an automobile.

The broken lines in the drawings illustrate portions of the steering wheel for an automobile that form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/176

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JPJP-1574032-SS2 Oct 201730 Sep 2016grantedno title held

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