Appeal No. 1996-1097
Application 08/058,110
program routine controls one set of corresponding I/O
devices independent of the ignition coil bank involved,
thereby reducing space utilized in the second storage
means.
The examiner relies on the following prior art
references:
Jenkins et al. (Jenkins) 4,149,239 April 10,
1979
Kumagai et al. (Kumagai) 4,887,215 December
12, 1989
Claims 1-12 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as
being unpatentable over Kumagai and Jenkins. The Examiner
finds that Kumagai discloses the claimed invention except
for the I/O devices attached to a plurality of ignition coil
banks, storing similar signals of the ignition coil banks
with a constant address offset, and using an indexed
addressing mode and the constant address offset to permit a
single program routine to control the different banks. The
Examiner relies on Jenkins for these missing features.
We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 7) (pages
referred to as "FR__") and the Examiner's Answer (Paper
No. 16) (pages referred to as "EA__") for a statement of the
Examiner's position and to the Substitute Appeal Brief
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