Appeal No. 95-3583
Application No. 08/185,294
perpendicular to the process direction, each slot separated from
each other by a distance S in the process direction when the belt
is properly registered.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Suzuki et al. (Suzuki) 4,315,201 Feb. 9, 1982
Wong et al. (Wong) 5,208,796 May 4, 1993
(filed Jan. 3, 1991)
Claims 1 through 4 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Wong in view of Suzuki.
Reference is made to the brief and the answer for the
respective positions of the appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through
4.
Figure 5 of Wong discloses a set of three slots 60, 62 and
64 on a photoreceptor belt 12, but only slot 64 is inclined at an
angle that is greater than 0 degrees with respect to a transverse
line perpendicular to the process direction of the belt. Figure
6 of Wong discloses a set of two inclined slots 66 and 68 on a
photoreceptor belt 12. We agree with the examiner that Wong
“does not explicitly disclose the use of a set of three inclined
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