USPatent applicationPatented

Earplug

Granted 21 Feb 2012 · 5 office actions

Current assignee: GOLUB CAPITAL MARKETS LLC · originally Kimberly Clark Worldwide

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Inventors: Steven Craig Gehling, Waihong Leong · Examiner: Wan Laymon · AU 2916 · TC 2900

Application· this page
29/312,094
filed 30 Sep 2008
Publication
Not published
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Patent
US D654582
granted 21 Feb 2012

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an earplug, showing our design.

FIG. 2 is a left-side view of the earplug thereof, where the right-side, front-side and back-side views all are similar thereto.

FIG. 3 is a top view of the earplug thereof.

FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the earplug thereof.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the earplug, showing an alternate design thereof.

FIG. 6 is a left-side view of the earplug thereof, where the right-side, front-side and back-side views all are similar thereto.

FIG. 7 is a top view of the earplug thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a bottom view of the earplug thereof.

The long-short-short-long dashes immediately adjacent to the stippling areas represent the bounds of the claimed design while all other broken lines represent environmental structure and are for illustrative purposes only; the broken lines form no part of the clamed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/106

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5
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Examiner
Wan Laymon
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Citations: 19 back · 0 forward

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