Appeal No. 95-4918 Application No. 08/114,293 This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 2 through 22 and 24, and from the refusal of the examiner to allow claim 23, as amended subsequent to the final rejection. These claims constitute all of the claims remaining in the application. Appellants’ invention pertains to a device, and process for damping the motion sequences of two masses. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claims 13, 19 and 21, copies of which appear in the corrected APPENDIX communication of Paper No. 39. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner has applied the documents listed below: Fujishiro et al. 4,696,489 Sep. 29, 1987 (Fujishiro) Wolfe 4,953,089 Aug. 28, 1990 Ivers et al. 5,004,079 Apr. 2, 1991 (Ivers) The following rejection, as set forth in the answer 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007