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Automobile tire

Granted 13 Jun 2006 · 2 office actions

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

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Inventors: Izumi Kuramochi, Sadakazu Takei, Hiroyuki Kojima, Masahiro Ebiko +2 · Examiner: Robert M. Spear · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/210,137
filed 28 Jul 2004
Publication
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US D522961
granted 13 Jun 2006

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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 thereof and a bottom plan view thereof 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 5—5 in FIG. 1;

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

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

In the drawings, the darker stippled surface shading indicates recessed portions of the tread grooves, having a depth as best shown in FIG. 6. The broken line showing of a sidewall and inner bead represents environmental structure only and form no part of the claimed design.

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D12/544D12/566

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