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Engine cover

Granted 2 Sep 2003 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Generac Power Systems, Inc. · originally Generac Holdings Inc.

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Inventors: Robert D. Kern, Guoming Wu, Gerald C. Ruehlow · Examiner: Melody N. Brown · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
29/172,378
filed 10 Dec 2002
Publication
Not published
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US D479244
granted 2 Sep 2003

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Description

1 parts
›FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of…

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of an engine cover showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 3 is an opposite side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 5 is a rear elevational view thereof.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D15/5

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Responses
1
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Examiner
Melody N. Brown
art unit 2911 · TC 2900
Citations: 8 back · 0 forward

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