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Passenger carrying car

Granted 10 Dec 2019 · 4 office actions

Current assignee: Central Japan Railway Company · originally NIPPON SHARYO, LTD.

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Inventors: Hiroki Tanaka, Naoyuki Maruyama, Yuya Futamura, Yukio Takahashi +2 · Examiner: T Chase Nelson · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
29/547,850
filed 8 Dec 2015
Publication
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US D869335
granted 10 Dec 2019

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a side view of a…

FIG. 1 is a side view of a passenger carrying car;

FIG. 2 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross sectional view thereof taken along lines 3 - 3 in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged view thereof defined by the areas 4 ′ in FIG. 2 and taken along the lines 4 - 4 in FIG. 2 ;

FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged view thereof defined by the areas 5 ′ in FIG. 2 and taken along the lines 5 - 5 in FIG. 2 ;

FIG. 6 is a partially enlarged cross sectional view thereof defined by the area 6 ′ in FIG. 4 ;

FIG. 7 is a partially enlarged cross sectional view thereof defined by the area 7 ′ in FIG. 2 and taken along the lines 7 - 7 in FIG. 3 ;

FIG. 8 is a partially enlarged cross sectional view thereof defined by the area 8 ′ in FIG. 7 ;

FIG. 9 is a partially enlarged view thereof defined by the broken line box 9 in FIG. 7 ;

FIG. 10 is a partially enlarged cross sectional view thereof taken along the lines 10 - 10 in FIG. 1 ; and,

FIG. 11 is a partially enlarged cross sectional view thereof defined by the areas 11 ′ and 11 ″ in FIG. 10 .

The broken lines depict environmental subject matter only and form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/42

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Pendency
4.0 y
1,463 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
non-final + final
Responses
2
no RCE
Examiner
T Chase Nelson
art unit 2914 · TC 2900
Citations: 13 back · 0 forward

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