Appeal No. 94-2716
Application 07/764,775
reply brief amending some claims and canceling claim 10, leading
the examiner to subsequently withdraw the new rejection.
Therefore, claims 1 to 9 remain on appeal before us.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A camera comprising:
a structural body comprising a plurality of integrally
coupled functional components including a lens barrel having an
optical axis;
a cover enclosing said structural body;
a plurality of slender members extending in parallel to
said optical axis of said lens barrel and between said structural
body and said cover, said structural body being supported by said
cover through said slender members; and
said slender members being sufficiently rigid to
position said structural body and said cover in a substantially
fixed relationship with respect to each other, and sufficiently
flexible to be elastically deformable to dampen shocks when
shocks are applied thereto.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Fujita et al. (Fujita) 4,887,109 Dec. 12, 1989
Claims 1 to 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. ' 102(b) as
being anticipated by Fujita.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellant and the
examiner, reference is made to the briefs and answers for the
respective details thereof.
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