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Air conditioner

Granted 6 Oct 2020 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Samsung Electronics

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Inventors: Tae Han Kim, Min-Kyung Choi · Examiner: Natasha Vujcic · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/685,263
filed 27 Mar 2019
Publication
Not published
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US D898174
granted 6 Oct 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 an air conditioner, showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left-side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right-side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 8 is another front perspective view thereof, showing only the claimed portion in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 9 is an enlarged view of the portion 9 in FIG. 6 ;

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view thereof, taken along line 10 - 10 in FIG. 9 ;

FIG. 11 is an enlarged view of the portion 11 in FIG. 2 ; and,

FIG. 12 is an enlarged view of the portion 12 in FIG. 4 .

The even-dash broken lines illustrating portions of the air conditioner form no part of the claimed design. The dot-dash broken lines in the figures represent a boundary line and form no part of the claimed design. The dot-dot-dash broken lines encircling enlargement portions of the claimed design form no part of the claimed design.

The thousands of tiny features of front portion are ‘micro air holes’, not the pattern.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D23/351

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559 days filing → grant
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1
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Responses
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Examiner
Natasha Vujcic
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JPJP-1642522-SS30 Sep 201922 Mar 2019grantedno title held

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