Appeal No. 97-1544
Application 08/358,976
second conductive member to cause said switch to change from a
noncon-ducting state to a conducting state, and wherein said
switch latches during said crushing due to the plastic
deformation of the metal cover means (99) upon being subjected
to a compressive force from the pressor member (133, 133a)
exceeding a predeter-mined magnitude. Thus, we must conclude
that this combination in Matsui anticipates that set forth in
claim 23 on appeal.
Appellant urges (brief, pages 16-17) that the term
“bending” as used in the application on appeal is
substantially different than the “bending” that the switch of
Matsui will undergo. Giving the language of claim 23 on appeal
its broadest reasonable inter-pretation consistent with
appellant’s specification, we can not agree with appellant’s
more limited assertions regarding the
definition of “bending” as used in claim 23. Like the
embodiment
seen in Figure 5 of the present application, we observe that
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