Adapter

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a rear perspective view of an adapter 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 right side view thereof, the left side view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a rear perspective view of a second embodiment thereof;

FIG. 9 is a front perspective view thereof;

FIG. 10 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 11 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 12 is a right side view thereof, the left side view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 13 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 14 is a bottom view thereof.

The broken lines illustrate environmental structure and form no part of the claimed design.

The drawings include surface shading that represents contour and not surface ornamentation.

The gray shading on a portion of the adapter in FIGS. 8-14 represents a metallic surface.

Claims

The ornamental design for an adapter, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D743895
Type: Grant
Filed: Feb 19, 2014
Date of Patent: Nov 24, 2015
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, 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), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Daniel Bui
Application Number: 29/482,550