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Peripheral device connector

Granted 3 Jun 2025 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd. · originally Nintendo

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Inventors: Tetsuya Akama, Yui Ehara, Hitoshi Tsuchiya, Yuko Zenri +1 · Examiner: Mehri F Bajoul · AU 2924 · TC 2900

Application
29/854,460
filed 26 Sep 2022
Publication
Not published
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US D1077917
granted 3 Jun 2025

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front right side perspective…

FIG. 1 is a front right side perspective view of a peripheral device connector showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a back left side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a back elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a left side view thereof; and,

FIG. 9 shows a back side left perspective view of the a peripheral device connector of FIG. 1 in an alternate position with a stand thereof extended.

The dotted broken lines depict bounds of the claim and form no part of the claimed design. The evenly dashed broken lines depict portions of the a peripheral device connector that form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D21/331D21/332

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Responses
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Examiner
Mehri F Bajoul
art unit 2924 · TC 2900
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