Connector

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a connector showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is another perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof, the rear view being a mirror image;

FIG. 4 is a top view thereof, the bottom view being identical;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof.

The dashed broken lines represent structure or features that form no part of the claimed design.

The dot-dash broken lines on the cable portion represent indeterminate length.

Claims

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

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Patent History
Patent number: D817889
Type: Grant
Filed: Apr 20, 2017
Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
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 Iullis (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: Daniel Bui
Application Number: 29/601,254