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Steering knuckle for a driving apparatus

Granted 23 Aug 2016 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Brown & Brown of Massachusetts, LLC · originally Hitachi, Ltd.

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Inventors: Rick Bowen, Aaron Conner, Ronald Walker · Examiner: Michael A Pratt · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
29/503,922
filed 30 Sep 2014
Publication
Not published
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US D764359
granted 23 Aug 2016

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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 steering knuckle comprising an opening hole (environment), a recess having an omega-like cross-section, and a beam connecting between the two (environment) as showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is an X-plane cross section view of a steering knuckle as showing our new design;

FIG. 4 is a first Y-plane cross section view of a steering knuckle as showing our new design;

FIG. 5 is a second Y-plane cross section view of a steering knuckle as showing our new design;

FIG. 6 is a third Y-plane cross section view of a steering knuckle as showing our new design;

FIG. 7 is an fourth Y-plane cross section view of a steering knuckle as showing our new design;

FIG. 8 is a first Z-plane cross section view of a steering knuckle as showing our new design;

FIG. 9 is a second Z-plane cross section view of a steering knuckle as showing our new design;

FIG. 10 is a third Z-plane cross section view of a steering knuckle as showing our new design;

FIG. 11 is a front view of a second embodiment of the steering knuckle;

FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the second embodiment of the steering knuckle;

FIG. 13 is a front view of a third embodiment of the steering knuckle;

FIG. 14 is a perspective view of the third embodiment of the steering knuckle;

FIG. 15 is a front view of a fourth embodiment of the steering knuckle;

FIG. 16 is a perspective view of the fourth embodiment of the steering knuckle;

FIG. 17 is a front view of a fifth embodiment of the steering knuckle; and,

FIG. 18 is a perspective view of the fifth embodiment of the steering knuckle.

The broken line showing of portions of the steering knuckle forms no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/159

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1.9 y
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1
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1
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Examiner
Michael A Pratt
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USthis patentUS-D764359-SS123 Aug 201630 Sep 2014grantedSteering knuckle for a driving apparatus
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CACA-161701-SS5 Jul 201625 Mar 2015grantedSteering knuckle for a driving apparatus

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