Connector

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view of a connector showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 8 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 1; and,

FIG. 9 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 6.

The dashed broken lines represent environment that forms no part of the claimed design. The dot-dash broken lines show the boundary of the claim and form no part of the claimed design.

The figures are lined for color to represent contrasting appearance. The light gray shading is representative of a metal appearance; the dark gray shading is representative of a textile or other soft good material.

Claims

The ornamental design for a connector, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D775133
Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 8, 2015
Date of Patent: Dec 27, 2016
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco, 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), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Cynthia Underwood
Application Number: 29/538,797
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Cover (D14/440)