Appeal No. 1998-1981
Application No. 08/695,899
We note that Appellant's claim 9 recites "[a] volume
current conveyance means . . . for conveying a volume current
from said portion of said insulator, through said volume
current conveyance means, and for avoiding high electric field
strengths in said means and on said portion of said
insulator." We note that Appellant's Fig. 1 shows the volume
current conveyance means as Element 12. See pages 4 and 5 of
Appellant's specification.
We note that in column 2, lines 63 and 64, Tsuzuki
teaches that Element 4 is a semi-conducting glaze.
Furthermore, we note in column 3, lines 8 through 11, that
Tsuzuki teaches that the Figure shows the thickness of the
semi-conducting glaze 4 on an enlarged scale. Thus, the semi-
conducting glaze 4 shown in the Figure has a very small
thickness. From this disclosure and from the Figure, we fail
to find that this semi-conducting glaze 4 which has a very
thin thickness meets the Appellant's claimed volume current
conveyance means because the semi-conducting
glaze 4 is unable to convey a volume current from the said
insulator. Furthermore, the semi-conducting glaze 4 is not
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