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Lariat necklace accessory for a wearable fitness monitor

Granted 21 Nov 2017 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Fitbit · originally Alphabet Inc.

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Inventors: Byron Ben-Ming Hsieh, Gad Amit, Ellise Noel Smolenyak, Susan Elizabeth McKinney +3 · Examiner: Antoine D Davis · AU 2917 · TC 2900

Application
29/569,703
filed 29 Jun 2016
Publication
Not published
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US D803077
granted 21 Nov 2017

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a side view of a…

FIG. 1 is a side view of a lariat necklace accessory.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the lariat necklace accessory of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the lariat necklace accessory of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 4 is an opposing side view of the lariat necklace accessory of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 5 is a back view of the lariat necklace accessory of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 6 is a top view of the lariat necklace accessory of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 7 is an isometric view of the lariat necklace accessory of FIG. 1 ; an example segment of a decorative chain that may be used for the strand is also depicted.

FIG. 8 is an isometric close-up view of the pendant that is part of the lariat necklace accessory depicted in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 9 is another close-up isometric view of the pendant from another perspective.

FIG. 10 is yet another close-up isometric view of the pendant from an additional perspective.

FIG. 11 is a further close-up isometric view of the pendant from another different perspective.

FIG. 12 is an isometric view corresponding to the perspective of FIG. 8 , but in a cage-opened configuration, such as is formed when the cage is unclasped to allow insertion or removal of the fitness monitor.

FIG. 13 is another isometric view corresponding to the perspective of FIG. 9 , but with the pendant in the configuration depicted in FIG. 12 .

FIG. 14 is a side view of the pendant; the left and right side views are identical since the pendant is symmetric in this respect.

FIG. 15 is a top view of the pendant.

FIG. 16 is a bottom view of the pendant.

FIG. 17 is a rear view of the pendant.

FIG. 18 is a front view of the pendant.

FIG. 19 is also a top view of the pendant, but with section lines added to show sectioning planes for FIGS. 20-23 .

FIG. 20 is a side section view of the pendant along the indicated section plane.

FIG. 21 is another side section view of the pendant along the indicated section plane.

FIG. 22 is a removed section view of the pendant along the indicated section plane.

FIG. 23 is another removed section view of the pendant along the indicated section plane.

FIG. 24 is a front view of the loop component that is shown in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 25 is a right side view of the loop component.

FIG. 26 is a left side view of the loop component.

FIG. 27 is a rear view of the loop component.

FIG. 28 is a bottom view of the loop component.

FIG. 29 is a top view of the loop component; and,

FIG. 30 is an isometric view of the loop component.

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Claims

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Classifications

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D10/70D24/168D10/97D10/39D10/98D24/167D32/18

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