Appeal No. 2004-1074
Application No. 09/924,772
Representative claim 1 reads as follows:1
1. An electrical connector assembly, comprising:
a dielectric housing having a mating end, a terminating end
and a plurality of terminal-receiving passages extending in a
direction between said ends; and
a termination subassembly fixed to the terminating end of
the housing, the termination subassembly including
a circuit board,
a plurality of terminal pins extending through the circuit
board and into the terminal-receiving passages in the housing
with the terminal pins having termination ends and mating ends at
the mating end of the housing,
a plurality of filters on the circuit board and electrically
connected to at least some of the terminal pins, and
a plastic pin holder overmolded about portions of the
termination ends of the terminal pins leaving portions of the
termination ends exposed at the terminating end of the housing,
about the filters and about at least a portion of the circuit
board, thereby rigidly supporting the termination ends of the
terminal pins for connection to appropriate conductors.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Shepherd 4,781,624 Nov. 1, 1988
Okamoto et al. (Okamoto) 5,145,413 Sep. 8, 1992
Cohen 5,236,376 Aug. 17, 1993
Ward 5,599,208 Feb. 4, 1997
1 The recitations in claims 1 and 13 that the termination
ends of the terminal pins are “exposed at the terminating end of
the housing” is at odds with the underlying specification which
indicates that the termination ends 16b of the pins 16 are
exposed at the termination face 32a of the pin holder 32, rather
than at the terminating end 20 of the housing 12. In the event
of further prosecution, appropriate steps should be taken to
resolve this inconsistency.
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