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Battery charger

Granted 3 Oct 2006 · 6 office actions

Current assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation · originally Techtronic Industries

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Inventors: Tom G. Volk, Alan Bengtson, David J. Rozwadowski, Kevin L. Glasgow +2 · Examiner: Alan P. Douglas · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
29/200,094
filed 24 Feb 2004
Publication
Not published
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US D529439
granted 3 Oct 2006

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front view of a…

FIG. 1 is a front view of a battery charger.

FIG. 1A is an enlarged detail view of a portion of the battery charger shown in FIG. 1; and,

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the battery charger shown in FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged top perspective view of a portion of the battery charger shown in FIG. 1 .

The present application is directed to the shape and contour of the design illustrated in the drawings. A portion of a housing and a portion of an indicator of the battery charger are illustrated in solid lines. The broken line showing of the environment is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design. The borken lines which define the boundaries of the claimed design form no part thereof.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D13/107

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Pendency
2.6 y
952 days filing → grant
Office actions
3
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Responses
4
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Interviews
2
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Examiner
Alan P. Douglas
art unit 2911 · TC 2900
Citations: 60 back · 0 forward

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