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Automobile tire

Granted 7 Nov 2006 · 2 office actions

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

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Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki · Examiner: Robert M. Spear · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/238,159
filed 13 Sep 2005
Publication
Not published
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US D531571
granted 7 Nov 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 rear view thereof, a top plan view thereof, a bottom plan view thereof appearing the same as the front view;

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

FIG. 3 is a fragmentary front view of the automobile tire, showing in enlargement the portion of line 3—3 and in the direction of arrows in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the automobile tire taken along line 4—4 and in the direction of the arrows in FIG. 3; and,

FIG. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the automobile tire.

In the drawings, the even broken lines represent environmental structure only; the dash-dot-dash lines represent the boundary between the claimed design and the tire sidewall. All broken lines represent subject matter that forms no part of the claim.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/579D12/900

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