Appeal No. 97-1147
Application 08/349,087
brief filed August 26, 1996 (Paper No. 13).
OPINION
After careful consideration of appellants' specification
and claims, the teachings of the applied Kagiyama reference
and the arguments and comments advanced by appellants and the
examiner,
it is our determination that the examiner's conclusion of
obviousness regarding the claimed subject matter is
unsupported by the applied prior art and will therefore not be
sustained.
The Kagiyama patent discloses a centrifugal clutch
arrangement for use in a power door lock actuator. Using the
language of appellants' claim 4 on appeal, we note that the
clutch of Kagiyama (Figs. 2-6) includes a rotatable driven
member (4), a rotatable driver (5), a recess (53) in the
driver, and a permanent magnet slider element (6) slidably
retained in the recess and operable for selectively
establishing a positive driving connection between said driver
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