Appeal No. 2006-2276
Application No. 10/426,594
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A flexible ribbon cable comprising:
two opposed flexible cover sheet insulators, each cover sheet insulator
having an inner surface and an outer surface;
a plurality of electrical conductors arranged in parallel to one other
between the inner surfaces of the cover sheet insulators, the inner surfaces of
the cover sheet insulators insulating the electrical conductors from one
another, wherein the cover sheet insulators and the electrical conductors
insulated therein form a flexible ribbon cable segment; and
a flexible reinforcing sheet coated on the outer surface of at least one
of the cover sheets of at least one section of the flexible ribbon cable
segment such that the at least one section of the flexible ribbon cable
segment having the reinforcing sheet is relatively more protected and has
relatively less flexibility than remaining sections of the flexible ribbon cable
segment, wherein the at least one section of the flexible ribbon cable
segment having the reinforcing sheet and the remaining sections of the
flexible ribbon cable segment have a sufficient amount of flexibility such
that the entire flexible ribbon cable segment may be wounded in a spiral
with portions of the at least one section of the flexible ribbon cable segment
being wounded on top of one another and such that end portions of the
flexible ribbon cable segment may be unwounded from the spiral.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Schauer 4,813,878 Mar. 21, 1989
Appellants’ Own Admission of Prior Art, pages 1-2 of the Background Art
Section.
Claims 1 through 12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Schauer in view of
appellants’ admitted prior art.
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