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Automobile tire tread

Granted 5 Jul 2005 · 2 office actions

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

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

Application
29/198,505
filed 2 Feb 2004
Publication
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US D506971
granted 5 Jul 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 tread, showing the new design, a top plan view thereof, a bottom plan view thereof appearing the same as the front view;

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

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

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

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

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

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

The broken line showing of a tire sidewall and inner bead, and the peripheral boundary between the tire tread and sidewall, indicate unclaimed environment and form no part of the claimed design.

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/550D12/555

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