Appeal No. 96-0417 Page 3
Application No. 07/951,308
(4) operating the dispensing device in response to
the control signal to dispense a second flow of fluid
onto the workpiece in the controlled relationship to the
received input signal.
43. A method of compensating for flow characteristics of
a fluid being dispensed from a device onto a workpiece, the
method comprising the steps of:
receiving an input signal;
modifying and correcting the received input signal
to reduce flow non-linearities introduced by the flow
characteristics from the device and to compensate for
viscosity changes of the fluid by:
modifying the input signal as a function of a fluid
flow measurement to produce a compensated signal; and
correcting the compensated signal as a function of
the flow characteristics of the fluid through the device to
produce a linearized compensated signal; and
dispensing fluid onto a workpiece under the control
of the linearized compensated signal.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Price 4,922,852 May 08,
1990
(102(e) date as of the effective filing date - Oct. 23,
1986)
Claims 33-47 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Price.
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