Appeal No. 96-4014
Application 08/192,939
is based upon said received engine signals" (claims 7 and 14) or
as "outputting a control variable value that is based upon the
received engine signals" (claim 20). That is, the low level
controllers are sensors. Hisano discloses a fuzzy computer
performing fuzzy logic operations on input values from sensors
and, in our opinion, this would have suggested to the artisan
that the fuzzy computer could operate on the outputs from the low
level controllers in the admitted prior art. Further, it is not
necessary that Hisano disclose low level controllers because
these are already present in the prior art.
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