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Automobile tire

Granted 14 Jun 2005 · 2 office actions

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

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Inventors: Takeshi Kaneko, Yukio Kuroda, Kenichiro Endo, Seiji Iga · Examiner: Robert M. Spear · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/194,837
filed 3 Dec 2003
Publication
Not published
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US D506179
granted 14 Jun 2005

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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 rear view, a top plan view and a bottom plan view appearing the same as the front view;

FIG. 2 is a right side view of the automobile tire, a left side view appearing the same as the right side view;

FIG. 3 is a fragmentary front view, showing in enlargement the portion of 3—3 in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along lines 4—4 and in the direction of arrows in FIG. 3; and,

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the automobile tire.

The broken lines in the drawings represent environmental structure only and form no part of the claimed design.

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/585D12/591

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