Appeal No. 95-5020
Application 08/151,041
consider-ation.
The invention relates to a method of and apparatus for
monitoring partial discharge activity in an insulating medium.
Independent claim 36 is reproduced as follows:
36. Apparatus for monitoring a partial discharge in an
insulating medium comprising:
waveform generator means for generating a time
varying exciting waveform to an insulating
medium and for generating a trigger pulse for
initiating a partial discharge in said
insulating medium; and
coupling means for applying the exciting
waveform and the trigger pulse to a sample of
said insula-ting medium so that partial
discharge activity is initiated in the medium
substantially simultan- eously with the
occurrence of the trigger pulse.
The reference relied on by the Examiner is as follows:
McFerrin 3,727,128 Apr. 10, 1973
Claims 53 and 54 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
second paragraph. Claims 36, 37, 42, 46, 47, 52 and 55 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by
McFerrin. Claim 56 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over McFerrin.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellant or the
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