Appeal No. 96-2742
Application No. 08/311,371
has demonstrated that the relied upon portion is confusing.
Accordingly, we find that without support in the drawings for
such an interpretation, the above-noted part of the
specification does not provide auggestion for the claimed
communication from the carrying apparatus to the recording and
reproducing unit. The figure described at page 6 of the
specification, Figure 3, shows no direct communication between
the carrying apparatus and the recording and reproducing unit;
all communication between the two goes through the director.
Additionally, although Figure 3 shows loading and ejecting
instructions, it does not show any instructions (directly or
indirectly) from the carrying means to the recording and
reproducing unit. Therefore, we find no support in the
drawings for the electrical signals from the carrying means as
recited in claims 1, 12, 13, and 16.
Further, the examiner states (Answer, page 7) that "if a
first component is going to hand-off a workpiece to a second
component, there must clearly be some kind of signal between
the two to indicate that the first component is done
manipulating the workpiece." However, detectors in the
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