Appeal No. 97-3714
Application 08/471,664
As indicated above, claim 1 recites an airplane fuselage panel comprising, inter
alia, a sheet having coordination holes, and
parts, including stringers, stringer clips and shear ties, each having
coordination holes . . . at locations that will match with corresponding coordination
holes in said sheet, so that said parts will be accurately located . . . when said
coordination holes in said parts and said coordination holes in said sheet are aligned
and said parts are riveted to said sheet.
Thus, claim 1 requires the airplane fuselage panel recited therein to include stringer clips
having coordination holes at locations that will match with corresponding coordination
holes in the sheet so that the stringer clips will be accurately located when the coordination
holes therein are aligned with the coordination holes in the sheet and the stringer clips are
riveted to the sheet.
In short, it is not apparent, nor has the examiner even attempted to explain, how the
disclosure of Robinson or the combined disclosures of Sarh and Ross teach or would have
suggested an airplane fuselage panel meeting these claim limitations. Although the
Robinson reference pertains to an airplane fuselage panel having a skin 12 and stringer
clips 24, it does not disclose any holes in the skin or stringer clips which might be
characterized even remotely as coordination holes of the sort recited claim 1. Similarly,
while the Sarh reference relates to the construction of an airplane fuselage panel, it does
not describe the panel as having any stringer clips. Finally, the Ross reference pertains to
an end-effector routing apparatus and makes no mention of airplane fuselage panels.
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