Appeal No. 95-3209
Application No. 08/020,304
have been objected to by the examiner as depending from art
rejected claims but otherwise allowable.
The subject matter on appeal relates to a method for
manufacturing a superconductive composite member which
comprises the step of hot-shaping an intermediate composite of
super- conductor material at a temperature such that the
material is present in at least a partially molten state.
This appealed subject matter is adequately illustrated by
independent claim 1 which reads as follows:
1. In a method for manufacturing a superconductive
composite member by introducing an oxide ceramic
superconductor material into an envelope to form an
intermediate composite, shaping the intermediate composite
into a final composite by a cross sectional-reducing, and
thermal heat-treating the final composite for recovering and
for setting the oxygen concentration, the improvements
comprising the shaping steps including heating the
intermediate composite to a temperature at which the
superconductor material is present in at least a partially
molten state, and subjecting the intermediate composite at
said temperature to at least one hot-shaping step.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of
obviousness are:
Yamamoto et al. (Yamamoto) 5,169,831 Dec. 8,
1992
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