Appeal No. 97-2594
Application 08/444,389
device during full load of the [said] steam generator" (claim
1, lines 12 and 13; claim 11, lines 25 to 27). However, he
asserted that this length appears "to be inherent in all [heat
storage] devices" (such as Diggs' vault 22).
With the amendment filed April 22, 1996 (Paper No. 6),
appellants submitted a copy of page 5 of a German
publication , and now, on pages 8 and 9 of their brief,3
include a translation of that page. Appellants assert , and4
the examiner does not dispute, that (brief, pages 9 to 10;
original emphasis):
This publication makes clear that the thermocline
zone (= heat transfer zone), in fact, extends only
over a portion of the length of the heat storage
device. It is also pointed out that in an efficient
storage facility the thermocline zone is narrow with
respect to the heat storage device. Thus, the
thermocline zone is not inherently identical to the
length of the storage facility; it is, in fact,
generally a very narrow band within the heat storage
device. The length of the thermocline zone does not
change when the length of the heat storage device is
changed since the length of the thermocline zone
Speicherung solarer Hochtemperaturwärme [Storing High Temperature Heat3
Energy] (Paul Scherrer Institut, Dec. 1993).
The examiner has not rejected the claims under 35 USC § 112, first4
paragraph, or otherwise contended that the claimed subject matter is not
enabled by appellants' disclosure.
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