Appeal No. 1996-2853
Application 08/375,272
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 21, 22, 24, 25 and 27. Claims 1 through 20 were
canceled in parent applications, prior to filing this
continuation application, and claims 23, 26, 28 and 29 were
canceled by an amendment after final rejection, Paper No. 37.
The invention relates to a radiation image storage panel
having a sheet of stimulable phosphor impregnated with a cured
resin.
Representative independent claim 21 is reproduced below:
21. A radiation image storage panel having a sheet of
stimulable phosphor comprising a sintered stimulable phosphor
and a cured resin, which is prepared by the steps of forming a
sheet of a powder comprising the stimulable phosphor, firing
the sheet to give a sintered sheet of the stimulable phosphor,
impregnating the sintered sheet with a thermosetting resin, an
ultraviolet-curing resin or an electron beam-curing resin, and
curing the impregnated resin.
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Arakawa et al. (Arakawa) 4,910,407 Mar.
20, 1990
(effective filing date Jan. 5,
1984)
Tsuchino et al. (Tsuchino) EP 0175578 Mar. 26, 1986
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