Appeal No. 96-1692
Application 08/156,811
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 5, 20 and 21, which are all of the
claims remaining in this application. Claims 6 through 19 have
been canceled.
Appellants' invention is directed to a method of
assembling a land vehicle (claim 21) and, more particularly, to a
method of assembling a golf car (claims 1 and 20). As explained
on page 2 of their brief, the golf car
can have either an electric motor (16)
drive system or an internal combustion
engine (14) drive system. The method
comprises selecting (308) a type of
drive system and connecting (310) the
selected type of drive system to a
chassis (12). Unlike prior art golf
cars, the chassis (12) is adapted to
alternatively receive either the
electric motor drive system or the
internal combustion engine drive system.
Thus, the method allows golf cars to be
assembled on a single assembly line as
either electric cars or internal
combustion engine cars. The method
allows rapid selection of different
drive systems types for manufacturing
both electric motor cars and internal
combustion engine cars on the single
assembly line, based upon product
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