Ex Parte YAMAMOTO - Page 6




                    Appeal No. 2002-0582                                                                                                                                  
                    Application No. 09/083,936                                                                                                                            


                    that the Examiner can read on Appellant's claim language by a                                                                                         
                    prior art interval box.                                                                                                                               
                              Mune discloses in column 1, lines 50-51, that Figures 5 and                                                                                 
                    6 are partial greatly enlarged, sectional views taken along the                                                                                       
                    lines 5-5 and 6-6, respectively, in Figure 3.  Turning to Figure                                                                                      
                    3, the sectional lines show that Figure 5 and Figure 6 are solely                                                                                     
                    part of the housing and are not made up of the arc box and the                                                                                        
                    arc cover.                                                                                                                                            
                              Claims 7 and 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being                                                                                
                    unpatentable over Kakizoe and Mune in view of Manthe.  Upon our                                                                                       
                    review of Manthe, we find that Manthe teaches a gas blow-off                                                                                          
                    opening section formed by an arc box and an arc cover.                                                                                                
                    Therefore, we will not sustain this rejection for the same                                                                                            
                    reasons as stated above.                                                                                                                              














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