US D1,145,743 S1Grant
Earphone
Issue Date:2026-09-01
•1 Claims
•5 Drawing Sheets
Abstract
Metadata
Assignee
- Apple Inc.
Inventors
- Jody Akana
- Molly Anderson
- Bartley K. Andre
- Shota Aoyagi
- Anthony Michael Ashcroft
- Marine C. Bataille
- Jeremy Bataillou
- Abidur Rahman Chowdhury
- Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne
- Markus Diebel
- Jonathan Gomez Garcia
- M. Evans Hankey
- Richard P. Howarth
- Jonathan P. Ive
- Julian Jaede
- Duncan Robert Kerr
- Peter Russell-Clarke
- Benjamin Andrew Shaffer
- Joe Sung-Ho Tan
- Clement Tissandier
- Eugene Antony Whang
Application Information
Application Number:US 29/939,890
Filing Date:2024-04-29
Priority Date:2020-11-11
Art Unit:2951
Classifications
Field of Search:
H04R 1/10H04R 1/1016H04R 1/1066H04R 1/105H04R 1/1033H04R 1/08H04R 1/46H04R 5/033H04R 5/0335H04R 25/00
Patent Drawings (5 sheets)
Description
[0001] FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of an earphone showing the claimed design;
[0002] FIG. 2 is a rear perspective view thereof;
[0003] FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;
[0004] FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;
[0005] FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;
[0006] FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;
[0007] FIG. 7 is a top view thereof; and,
[0008] FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof.
[0009] The dashed broken lines in the figures show portions of the earphone that form no part of the claimed design.
Claims
CLAIM
The ornamental design for an earphone as shown and described.
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