Appeal No. 2000-2139
Application No. 08/938,704
shield can 210 against the printed circuit board 100" (col. 4,
lines 32 to 35).
In the APA, the appellants disclose that in the prior art
it is known to provide grounding terminals 6 in the form of
elastically deformable conductive strips 7 between the radio
circuit substrate 4 and the shield case 1 of, e.g., a portable
telephone, to connect the shield case 1 to the grounding
conductor 5 on the substrate 4 (page 1, line 25 to page 2,
line 3).
The examiner takes the position that it would have been
obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art
[a] to include an elastic member between the inner
wall of the casing and a surface of the first or
second shield case of the Beutler apparatus because
the elastic member will improve the rigidity of the
apparatus and also provide a tighter electromagnetic
seal. This would have been obvious since Mendolia
(column 4, lines 30+)teaches that the elastic member
produces elastic pressure urging both first and
second shield cases to engage tightly with the
surface of the printed board to provide grounding to
the apparatus.
and
[b] to replace the springs in the Beutler and
Mendolia et al[ ] apparatus with those of the prior2
It appears that “Mendolia et al.” was included by error here.2
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