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Control panel for inside a vehicle

Granted 6 Oct 2020 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc. · originally Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

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Inventors: Takashi Ichikawa, Hideki Endo · Examiner: Susan E Krakower · AU 2917 · TC 2900

Application
29/693,955
filed 6 Jun 2019
Publication
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US D898018
granted 6 Oct 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 control panel for inside a vehicle showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a left side view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is an enlarged perspective view showing area 8 taken from FIG. 1 .

The broken lines illustrate portions of a control panel for inside a vehicle that form no part of the claimed design. The broken lines in FIGS. 1 and 8 illustrate boundaries of an enlarged view that form no part of the claimed design.

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D14/258D12/192

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