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Shock protective vacuum-formed package for disc drives

Granted 7 Aug 2001 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Seagate Technology Llc · originally Seagate Technology

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Inventors: John Fredrick Hazekamp, Troy James Merrell, Todd Allen Redder · Examiner: Prabhakar Deshmukh · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
106580
filed 17 Jun 1999
Publication
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US D446115
granted 7 Aug 2001

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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 shock protective vacuum-formed package for disc drives showing our new design, in an open position;

FIG. 2 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view thereof; in a closed position;

FIG. 4 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a front elevational view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a right side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a rear elevational view thereof;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view of a second embodiment of FIG. 1, in an open position;

FIG. 10 is a top plan view of FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a top plan view of FIG. 9, in a closed position;

FIG. 12 is a left side elevational view of FIG. 11;

FIG. 13 is a front elevational view of FIG. 11;

FIG. 14 is a bottom plan view of FIG. 11;

FIG. 15 is a right side elevational view of FIG. 11; and,

FIG. 16 is a rear elevational view of FIG. 11.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D09/425

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