Appeal No. 95-3096
Application 08/139,072
5. In an automobile glazing having a conductive layer
thereon, an electrical connection element comprising:
a segment of flexible metal braid;
a plug mounted on one end of the braid; and
a connection piece formed of a piece of rigid sheet metal
and connected to another end of the segment of flexible metal
braid, said connection piece being brazed to the conductive
layer,
wherein the piece of sheet metal forming the connection
piece comprises a middle section and two end sections, and the
middle section is bent so as to take the shape of a bridge
element so that only the end sections are braze mounted to the
conductive layer.
The references applied in the final rejection are:
Reeder 3,980,382 Sept. 14, 1976
Boaz 4,246,467 Jan. 20, 1981
Sinharoy et al. (Sinharoy) 4,658,504 Apr. 21, 1987
Eckardt et al. (Eckardt) 5,023,403 June 11, 1991
The claims on appeal stand finally rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as follows:
(1) Claims 1 and 5, unpatentable over Boaz in view of
Eckardt.
(2) Claim 4, unpatentable over Boaz in view of Eckardt and
either of Reeder or Sinharoy.
We will first consider the rejection of claims 1 and 5.
The basis of this rejection is set forth on pages 2 and 3 of
the examiner’s answer as follows:
Boaz discloses a connection piece having the
claimed structure, namely, a middle section, and two
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