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Vehicle hood

Granted 30 Mar 2010 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Ford Global Technologies LLC · originally Ford Motor

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Inventors: Peter Elliott, Craig S. Metros, David Carl Dewitt, Scott Strong · Examiner: Melody N Brown · AU 2917 · TC 2900

Application
29/342,234
filed 20 Aug 2009
Publication
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US D612779
granted 30 Mar 2010

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of…

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a vehicle hood (as viewed from the front of a vehicle);

FIG. 2 is a left side elevational view of the vehicle hood;

FIG. 3 is a right side elevational view of the vehicle hood;

FIG. 4 is a top plan view of the vehicle hood;

FIG. 5 is a bottom plan view of the vehicle hood;

FIG. 6 is a rear elevational view of the vehicle hood; and,

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the vehicle hood.

Views are orthogonal projections unless otherwise noted. The various views are not necessarily to scale in order to better illustrate the design. The drawings were generated using Computer Aided Design tools.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/173

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