Appeal No. 96-1637
Application 08/130,940
The respective positions of the examiner and the
appellants with regard to the propriety of these rejections are
set forth in the final rejection (Paper No. 4) and the examiner's
answer (Paper No. 10) and the appellants' brief (Paper No. 9).
Appellants' Invention
In Figure 1 appellants disclose an antenna system having
a wire 12 which extends along a surface 14 of sea ice 10. Wire 12
is connected at one end to a means 16 for receiving and/or
transmitting radio wave signals. At its opposite end, the wire 12
is connected to the seawater 21 by means of an end portion 23
which passes through a hole 22 in the ice. The receiving and
transmitting means 16 comprise a tuner 18 and a transceiver 20.
In Figure 2, the tuner is disclosed as a series of 600 pF
capacitors 62, 64 and 66. The tuner is preferably grounded by
wire 24 which passes through a second hole 26 in the sea ice 10
into seawater 21. The antenna transmits and receives vertically
polarized radio or electromagnetic waves which are closely coupled
to the surface of the sea ice.
Figure 3A illustrates a second embodiment comprising a
dipole antenna 34 formed by two wires 36 and 38 extending along
the surface 14 of the sea ice 10 in opposite directions.
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