Appeal No. 96-4122
Application 08/077,419
the road surface reference. The spring-mass
deflection would indicate road conditions such as
road inclination, longitudinal and transverse
conditions as known in the art.
The above-quoted passage further reflects the misplaced
idea that detection of vehicle motion due to road surface
condition equates to detecting motion in a road surface-fixed
reference system. The examiner has not shown anything in
Majeed which reasonably would have suggested eliminating the
effects of road surface inclinations on detected vehicle
motion. The examiner further stated (answer at pages 8-9):
Even if Majeed and Adachi did not take road surface
as a fixed reference, practitioners in the art would
have found it obvious to refer road surface as a
fixed reference, because the vehicle moves in that
reference in order to control car driving
comfortability.
The statement is mere conclusory and unsupported by factual
evidence. Moreover, the appellants’ do not simply claim
reliance on a road surface-fixed reference. Instead, the road
surface-fixed reference system must be dependent on corrected
first signals, which first signals represent movement of the
vehicle relative to an inertial reference system.
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