Appeal No. 96-3323
Application 08/022,922
a part control data base for registering the data on the designer who
is designing or modifying each part at each point of time in
correspondence with the data on the designer who is referring to said
part;
a data control unit for updating the corresponding part shape data in
said part shape data base in accordance with the nature of the
modification when a part is modified in one of said data processing
units, for retrieving and extracting designer information referring to
said part and designer which has been modified from said part
control data base, and for transmitting the fact that said part has been
modified and the nature of the modification to the data processing
unit of the extracted designer information; and
an assembly structure data base storing structural data of the parts of
the object.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Bly et al. (Bly) 5,008,853 Apr. 16, 1991
Gore et al. (Gore) 5,128,878 Jul. 07, 1992
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Sasagase et al. (Sasagase) Hei 2-48774 Feb. 14, 1990
(Japanese Kokai Application)
Hardwick et al., "USING A RELATIONAL DATABASE AS AN INDEX TO A DISTRIBUTED
OBJECT DATABASE IN ENGINEERING DESIGN SYSTEMS,” Second International
Conference on Data and Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering, 16-18
October 1989, pp. 4-10. (Hardwick)
Claims 1-6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Gore in view of Hardwick and
further in view of Sasagase. Claims 7-10 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Gore in
4We refer to the translation by The Ralph McElroy Translation Company dated August 1996 in our
citations thereto. A copy of the translation is included.
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