Appeal No. 95-3876
Application 08/222,009
transformer 13 and transistor 12 that converts the low voltage
of power source 11 to high voltage (col. 3, lines 36-45). I
agree with appellants that this circuitry does not double the
voltage on the main capacitor 1 and would therefore reverse
the rejection of this claim.
Claim 9 depends on claim 14 and specifies that the
flash terminating command disappears subsequent to
disappearance of the flash firing command (sic, flash firing
command signal). Consistent with the examiner's reading of
the claimed "means for receiving a flash firing command
signal" on Iwata’s transistor 29, I agree with the examiner
that the claimed "flash firing command signal" can be read on
the short pulse produced beginning at time T when switch 36
1
is closed, shown as signal A in Figure 4 (col. 4, lines 3-6).
Appellants' argument (Reply Brief at 4) that the flash firing
command signal corresponds instead to the signal B produced by
Iwata's NAND gate 28 lacks sufficient explanation and is not
understood. The claimed "flash terminating command" can be
read on the output of light receiving means 34, which at time
T issues a flash terminating signal (not shown) when the light
3
received from the subject reaches a predetermined value (col.
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