Housing module for an electronic device

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a bottom front perspective view of a housing module for an electronic device showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 9 is a bottom front perspective view of a housing module for an electronic device showing the claimed design;

FIG. 10 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 11 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 12 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 13 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 14 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 15 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 16 is a bottom view thereof.

The broken lines in the figures show portions of the housing module for an electronic device that form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for a housing module for an electronic device, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D926771
Type: Grant
Filed: Feb 1, 2021
Date of Patent: Aug 3, 2021
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), Kristina A. Babiarz (San Jose, CA), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Carlo Catalano (Capitola, CA), Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA), Ross M. Errett (San Jose, CA), Lee B. Hamstra (Mountain View, CA), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA), Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Melody L. Kuna (Palo Alto, CA), Carli E. Oster (San Francisco, CA), Florence Wong Ow (Burlingame, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA), Sung-Ho Tan (San Francisco, CA), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Devin M. Williams (Washington, DC), Alex Chun Lap Yeung (South San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Austin Murphy
Application Number: 29/768,801
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: For Computer (D14/439)