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Mid-filament spacer

Granted 11 Aug 2020 · no office action yet

Current assignee: HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION · originally Veeco Instruments

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Inventors: Premkumar Suhandira Viran, Hao Chen, Joe Lamb · Examiner: Zenia I Bennett · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/656,586
filed 13 Jul 2018
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US D893088
granted 11 Aug 2020

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a mid-filament spacer according to a fifth embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a front side view of the mid-filament spacer depicted in FIG. 1 , with the back side view being identical to the front side view.

FIG. 3 is a left side view of the mid-filament spacer depicted in FIG. 1 , with the right side view being identical to the left side view.

FIG. 4 is a top view of the mid-filament spacer depicted in FIG. 1 .

FIG. 5 is a bottom view of the mid-filament spacer depicted in FIG. 1 , with dashed lines indicating environmental portions that form no part of the claimed design; and,

FIG. 6 is a bottom view of a sixth, alternative embodiment of the mid-filament spacer, which has top, left, right, front, back and perspective view are identical to those depicted with respect to the embodiment shown in FIGS. 4 .

The broken lines immediately adjacent the shaded areas on the bottom views of the embodiments described above represent the bounds of the claimed design and are for illustrative purposes only; the broken lines form no part of the claimed design.

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D26/113

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