Connector
Akana , et al. June 18, 2
Patent Grant D684539
U.S. patent number D684,539 [Application Number D/426,587] was granted by the patent office on 2013-06-18 for connector. This patent grant is currently assigned to Apple Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer. Invention is credited to Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer.
| United States Patent | D684,539 |
| Akana , et al. | June 18, 2013 |
Connector
Claims
CLAIM The ornamental design for a connector, as shown and described.
| Inventors: | Akana; Jody (San Francisco, CA), Andre; Bartley K. (Menlo Park, CA), Bataillou; Jeremy (San Francisco, CA), Coster; Daniel J. (San Francisco, CA), De Iuliis; Daniele (San Francisco, CA), Hankey; M. Evans (San Francisco, CA), Hoenig; Julian (San Francisco, CA), Howarth; Richard P. (San Francisco, CA), Ive; Jonathan P. (San Francisco, CA), Kerr; Duncan Robert (San Francisco, CA), Nishibori; Shin (Kailua, HI), Rohrbach; Matthew Dean (San Francisco, CA), Russell-Clarke; Peter (San Francisco, CA), Stringer; Christopher J. (Woodside, CA), Whang; Eugene Antony (San Francisco, CA), Zorkendorfer; Rico (San Francisco, CA) | ||||||||||
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| Assignee: | Apple Inc. (Cupertino,
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| Appl. No.: | D/426,587 | ||||||||||
| Filed: | July 6, 2012 |
| Current U.S. Class: | D13/147 |
| Current International Class: | 1303 |
| Field of Search: | ;D13/133,147,154,184,199 ;D14/432,433,435,435.1,436,437,438 ;345/156 ;361/58,814 ;439/66,74,77,79,188,344-346,350-353,357-358,374,497,607.01,607.02,607.03,607.04,607.45,607.49,607.58,660,668,680,865-866,868,887,874,883,892,894 |
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Primary Examiner: Bui; Daniel
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
Description
FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view of a connector showing our new design;
FIG. 2 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a top view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a bottom view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a side view thereof;
FIG. 6 is another side view thereof;
FIG. 7 is a front view thereof; and,
FIG. 8 is a rear view thereof.
The broken lines in the figures show portions of the connector which form no part of the claimed design.
The shade lines in the figures show contour and not surface ornamentation.
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