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Docking station

Granted 20 Aug 2002 · no office action yet

Application
29/149,730
filed 15 Oct 2001
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US D461814
granted 20 Aug 2002

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Description

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›FIG. 1A is perspective view of a docking…

FIG. 1A is perspective view of a docking station showing the front and left side of our new design, with a battery holder module, a gel warmer module, a PDU holder/recharger module and a transducer holder module fully assembled onto a docking station base wherein the order and arrangement of the individual modules onto the docking station base as shown is merely exemplary, the modules being capable of arrangement in any order;

FIG. 1B is an exploded perspective view of the docking station of FIG. 1A, showing the battery holder module, the gel warmer module, the PDU holder/recharger module and the transducer holder module removed from the docking station base;

FIG. 2A is a perspective view of the battery holder module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 2B is a front plan view of the battery holder module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 2C is a rear plan view of the battery holder module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 2D is a right side plan view of the battery holder module of the docking station of FIG. 1B, the left side view being a mirror image of the right side and thus not shown;

FIG. 2E is a top plan view of the battery holder module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 3A is a perspective view of the gel warmer module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 3B is a front plan view of the gel warmer module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 3C is a rear plan view of the gel warmer module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 3D is a right side plan view of the gel warmer module of the docking station of FIG. 1B, the left side view being a mirror image of the right side and thus not shown;

FIG. 3E is a top plan view of the gel warmer module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 4A is a perspective view of the PDU holder/recharger module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 4B is a front plan view of the PDU holder/recharger module of the Docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 4C is a rear plan view of the PDU holder/recharger module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 4D is a right side plan view of the PDU holder/recharger module of the docking station of FIG. 1B, the left side view being a mirror image of the right side and thus not shown;

FIG. 4E is a top plan view of the PDU holder/recharger module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 5A is a perspective view of the transducer holder module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 5B is a front plan view of the transducer holder module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 5C is a rear plan view of the transducer holder module of the docking station of FIG. 1B;

FIG. 5D is a right side plan view of the transducer holder module of the docking station of FIG. 1B, the left side view being a mirror image of the right side and thus not shown; and,

FIG. 5E is a top plan view of the transducer holder module of the docking station of FIG. 1B.

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D14/434D13/108

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