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Business card scanner

Granted 26 Mar 1996 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Seiko Epson Corp. · originally U-Shin Ltd.

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Inventors: Hironori Shirakura, Kazunari Sasaki · Examiner: M. H. Tung · AU 291 · TC 2900

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filed 24 Sep 1993
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US D368255
granted 26 Mar 1996

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front view of the…

FIG. 1 is a front view of the inventive design for a business card scanner;

FIG. 2 is a top view of the inventive design of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the inventive design of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a left side view of the inventive design of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a right side view of the inventive design of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a rear view of the inventive design of FIG. 1;

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the inventive design of FIG. 1 taken along the lines 77 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the inventive design of FIG. 1 with a cover of the business card scanner closed, on an enlarged scale;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the inventive design of FIG. 1 with a cover of the business card scanner open, on an enlarged scale;

FIG. 10 is a front view of the inventive design of FIG. 1 with the cover open;

FIG. 11 is a top view of the inventive design of FIG. 1 with the cover open;

FIG. 12 is a bottom view of the inventive design of FIG. 1 with the cover open;

FIG. 13 is a left side view of the inventive design of FIG. 1 with the cover open;

FIG. 14 is a right side view of the inventive design of FIG. 1 with the cover open; and,

FIG. 15 is a rear view of the inventive design of FIG. 1 with the cover open.

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D14/107

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