Appeal No. 1998-1533 Page 25
Application No. 08/411,202
Similar to our determination set forth above with respect
to claim 5, it is our it is our determination that the
broadest reasonable meaning of
each friction pad member of said brake shoes has an upper
portion with a total width determined to be less than
substantially 1/12 of the circumferential length of said
disc rotor at a position where said rotor is brought into
frictional engagement with the upper portion of said
friction pad member
is that each friction pad member has a total width less than
substantially 1/12 of a circumferential length of the disc
rotor at a position where the disc rotor is brought into
frictional engagement with the upper portion of each friction
pad member.
To apply the meaning sought by the appellants would, in our 9
view, be improperly reading limitations from the specification
into the claims.
CONCLUSION
9The appellants argue that the meaning should be that the
total width of all the friction pad members is less than
substantially 1/12 of the circumferential length of the disc
rotor.
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