Appeal No. 97-2605
Application 08/272,782
Morishima (Japanese ‘291) 61-129291 Jun. 17, 1986
(Japanese Patent Document)
Tanida et al. (Japanese ‘651) 3-181651 Aug. 7, 1991
(Japanese Patent Document)
Hanakawa et al. (Japanese ‘654) 3-181654 Aug. 7, 1991
(Japanese Patent Document)
Shibata et al. (Japanese ‘655) 3-181655 Aug. 7, 1991
(Japanese Patent Document)
Claims 5, 8 and 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103:
a) as being unpatentable over the Japanese ‘291 reference;
and
b) as being unpatentable over the Japanese ‘291 reference in
view of any one of the Japanese ‘651, ‘654 or ‘655 references.
Reference is made to the appellants’ main and reply briefs
(Paper Nos. 12 and 19) and to the examiner’s final rejection,
main answer and supplemental answer (Paper Nos. 8, 13 and 20) for
the respective positions of the appellants and the examiner with
regard to the merits of these rejections.
The Japanese ‘291 reference discloses a cam 9 having a
camshaft opening 14. The cam consists of a plurality of laser
cut plates or layers 1 joined in aligned and laterally adjacent
relation to one another by rivets or bolts 8. The examiner
acknowledges that this cam does not meet the limitation in
independent claim 8 requiring the fastening means for joining the
-3-
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