Appeal No. 95-3828
Application 07/868,037
Dec. 9, 1993 (Paper No. 10). Claims 11 through 15, the only
other claims remaining in this application, stand withdrawn
from consideration by the examiner (brief, page 2).
According to appellants, the invention is directed to an
uncoated gas-permeable fabric with the desired strength,
extensibility, and thickness needed for the gas-releasing part
of an airbag (brief, page 4). Claim 16 is illustrative of the
subject matter on appeal and is reproduced below:
16. An uncoated gas-permeable fabric having
sufficient gas-permeability, flatness, fabric strength, fabric
extensibility, and tongue tear resistance for use, without
modification, as the gas-releasing part of an airbag, said
uncoated gas-permeable fabric comprising: a synthetic
multifilament yarn with a tenacity of more than 60 cN/tex
having a filament linear density of 4 dtex or less and a yarn
count within the range from 250 to 550 dtex in an uncoated,
gas-permeable crepe or modified huckaback weave, the gas-
permeable, modified huckaback weave having warp-weft crossings
with essentially the same number of warp-weft crossing points,
said gas-permeable fabric having a thickness not exceeding
0.35 mm.
The examiner has relied upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Belitsin et al. (Belitsin) 4,054,709 Oct.
18, 1977
Krummheuer et al. (Krummheuer I) 5,093,163 Mar.
3, 1992
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