Appeal No. 97-1156
Application 08/192,270
§ 103 by the teaching of Ito ‘085.
The rejection based upon Yoshikawa
We reverse this rejection of claims 30, 31, 35 through
37, 42, and 45 through 48 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e).
Simply stated, the feature of a mechanical joining of an
intermediate member and a metallic member in a ceramic-metal
composite assembly (independent claims 30 and 31), in
particular, is not taught by Yoshikawa. Thus, the content of
the rejected claims is not anticipated by the Yoshikawa
disclosure.
The rejection based upon Ito ‘704
We reverse this rejection of claims 30 through 32 and 37
through 48 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b).
The Ito ‘704 document may fairly be said to teach the
joining of a ceramic turbine rotor shaft to a metal shaft
either by the brazing of an intermediate buffer layer
therebetween, as seen in Figure 2(b), or by end to end butt-
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