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Ink cartridge

Granted 3 Sep 2002 · no office action yet

Assignee: Brother Industries Limited

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Inventors: Mitsuharu Hattori, Atsushi Murakami, Toyonori Sasaki, Masatoshi Yoshiyama · Examiner: Cathy Anne MacCormac · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
29/151,258
filed 6 Dec 2001
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US D462384
granted 3 Sep 2002

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a left side view of…

FIG. 1 is a left side view of a first embodiment of an ink cartridge;

FIG. 2 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a perspective view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a left side view of a second embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 9 is a right side view of FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a front view of FIG. 8;

FIG. 11 is a rear view of FIG. 8;

FIG. 12 is a top view of FIG. 8;

FIG. 13 is a bottom view of FIG. 8; and,

FIG. 14 is a perspective view of FIG. 8.

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D18/56347/86

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