Appeal No. 1997-1181 Page 4
Application No. 08/000,735
respective positions articulated by the appellants and the
examiner. For the reasons which follow, we cannot sustain the
examiner’s rejection.
The Japanese document discloses a method of manufacturing
electrical windings wherein a single resin is used in multiple
“processes” (steps). In particular, a winding is wound around
several times to form a conductor and an additive is added to
a resin A to produce a high viscosity resin which is applied
to the inside diameter corners of the conductor and heat
hardened to smooth the conductor surface. Next, a glazed
backing mica tape is semi-layered and wound around the
conductor several times. The insulating resin A is then
heated to a temperature of approximately 90o C, thereby
rendering it a low viscosity resin, impregnated into the mica
tape covered conductor and then heat hardened to form a field
winding 5. A metal core 4 is then inserted into the field
winding 5 and a high viscosity resin 8 formed by adding an
additive of pulverized glass and hardening accelerator to
resin A is poured between the core and field winding and
hardened to form a field device 6 (translation, page 7).
While we discern no such express teaching in the
translation of the Japanese document, appellants have conceded
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