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Microscope body

Granted 26 Oct 2010 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: EVIDENT CORPORATION · originally Olympus Corporation

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Inventors: Koji Suzuki, Kenji Tajima, Yoshihiro Hayashi, Masayoshi Karasawa +1 · Examiner: Paula Greene · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/344,776
filed 5 Oct 2009
Publication
Not published
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US D626162
granted 26 Oct 2010

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top, front and left…

FIG. 1 is a top, front and left side perspective view of a microscope body showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a right side view thereof, the left side view thereof being a mirror image of the right side view shown;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view thereof taken along X—X line of FIG. 3 ;

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view thereof taken along XI—XI line of FIG. 3 ;

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view thereof taken along XII—XII line of FIG. 5 ; and,

FIG. 10 is a top, front and left side perspective view of the microscope body. The microscope shown in broken lines form no part of the claimed design for the microscope body.

The broken lines in the figures form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D16/131

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