Appeal No. 1996-3229
Application 08/271,477
through 24 and 26 through 29 have been canceled. Claims 31,2
33, 34 , 39 and 40 are objected to and indicated as containing3
allowable subject matter. Claim 41 is indicated as allowable.
Proposed claims 42 and 43 were denied entry.
The invention relates to a current limiting circuit
and a latch. One of the objectives of the current limiting
circuit is to reduce “through current” or “crowbar current”
while the latch limits current loss and prevents the output
from floating. In particular, referring to Figure 2, 400 is
the latch circuit, 300 is the current limiting circuit which
contains a first inverting circuit 302 which in turn contains
first and second inverters 309 and 315 respectively.
The only rejected independent claim 25 is reproduced
as follows:
25. A current limiting circuit comprising:
a first inverting circuit having an input for
receiving an input signal, a first output for outputting a
first output signal and an second output for outputting a
Claim 29 was canceled by amendment E, Paper No. 14, and its limitations inserted into claim 25. Thus, the2
final rejection of claim 29, Gabara in view of Bonneau became applicable to claim 25.
The rejection of claims 33 and 34 was withdrawn in the Examiner’s Answer.3
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