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Seal for shafts

Granted 25 Feb 2020 · 6 office actions

Assignee: NOK Corporation

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Inventors: Koji Watanabe, Kazunari Seki · Examiner: Darcey E Gottschalk · AU 2919 · TC 2900

Application
29/514,870
filed 16 Jan 2015
Publication
Not published
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US D876594
granted 25 Feb 2020

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a seal for shafts showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front elevational view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a right side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view thereof.

Even spaced broken lines illustrate unclaimed portions of the seal and form no part of the claimed design. Dot-dash broken lines define the boundaries of, but are not included in, the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

3 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D23/269D9/452D9/453

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Pendency
5.1 y
1,866 days filing → grant
Office actions
3
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Responses
3
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Examiner
Darcey E Gottschalk
art unit 2919 · TC 2900
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