Appeal No. 1996-0427
Application 08/210,224
discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency, each
and every element of a claimed invention." RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221
USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984), cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228
(1994), citing Kalman v. Kimberly-Clark Corp., 713 F.2d 760,
772, 218 USPQ 781, 789 (Fed. Cir. 1983).
Returning to Yamamura, we note as shown in Figure 3
that Yamamura produces a P1 signal which reads on Appellants'
claim language as recited in claim 1. In particular,
Yamamura's P1 is "a signal comprising a sequence of
predetermined number of pulses, said pulses increasing in
length monotonically during said sequence" as recited in
Appellants' claim 1. Turning to Figure 2, Yamamura discloses
that apparatus 10 provides the saw tooth signal ST as shown in
Figure 3. Figure 2 shows that the saw tooth signal ST is
provided to operational amplifier 22 and that apparatus 20
provides the signal P1 for the period of time until V1, which
is the charge voltage of capacitor 26, exceeds the voltage of
the saw tooth signal. We note that Yamamura teaches that
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