Appeal No. 97-0544 Page 3
Application No. 08/177,108
image at a working distance from the mask having a
profile for ablating the nozzles of specific shape
and location on the substrate;
holding the substrate at the working distance
from the masks;
holding the plurality of masks overlying the
substrate to register the real images of the
subapertures to the substrate to pattern the
nozzles;
dividing the coherent light of the specific
frequency into multiple beams with one the beam
[sic]
intersecting each mask at at [sic] least one
subaperture; and,
scanning the coherent light source of the
specific frequency for simultaneously causing each
said beam of the multiple beams at each said mask to
simultaneously scan a plurality of subapertures at
least along one direction in the plane of the mask
to produce on [sic] the substrate nozzles.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Daly 3,626,141 Dec.
7, 1971
Dorfman et al. (Dorfman) 5,294,567 Mar.
15, 1994
(filed Oct. 8,
1993)
Schantz et al. (Schantz) 5,305,018 Apr.
19, 1994
(filed Mar. 9,
1992)
Smith et al. (Smith) 5,328,785 Jul. 12,
1994
(filed Feb. 10,
1992)
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