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Automobile tire

Granted 4 May 2004 · no office action yet

Current assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD. (Furukawa) · originally Furukawa Co., Ltd.

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Inventors: Koutarou Iwabuchi, Izumi Kuramochi, Hirohisa Hazama, Kenji Yamane · Examiner: Robert M. Spear · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/174,331
filed 16 Jan 2003
Publication
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US D489317
granted 4 May 2004

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front view of an…

FIG. 1 is a front view of an automobile tire, showing the new design, a top plan view and a bottom plan view appearing the same as the front view;

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the automobile tire;

FIG. 3 is a right side view of the automobile tire;

FIG. 4 is a left side view of the automobile tire;

FIG. 5 is a fragmentary front view, showing in enlargement the portion of lines 5—5 in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a sectional view, taken along line 6—6 and in the direction of arrows in FIG. 5; and,

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the automobile tire.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/550

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