Enclosure for communications device

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a rear perspective view of an enclosure for communications device showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 7 is left side view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a right side view thereof.

The lines in the Figures which bisect the center of the side surfaces of the component in all views are shade lines and are not boundary lines or surface ornamentation. They may be removed from the drawings without departing from the original disclosure.

Claims

The ornamental design for an enclosure for communications device, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D733146
Type: Grant
Filed: Jan 8, 2013
Date of Patent: Jun 30, 2015
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Menlo Park, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Sawyer Issac Cohen (Sunnyvale, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Shin Nishibori (Kailua, HI), David A. Pakula (San Francisco, CA), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Ashutosh Y. Shukla (Santa Clara, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Tang Yew Tan (San Francisco, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Michael Benjamin Wittenberg (Sunnyvale, CA), Charles B. Woodhull (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Robert M Spear
Assistant Examiner: Kendra L Hamilton
Application Number: 29/441,670
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: For Computer (D14/439)