Appeal No. 96-3333
Application 08/295,194
(See brief at page 6, paragraph 3; answer at page 6, paragraph 2.) Again the examiner
questions the operation of the claimed invention, rather than address the teachings of Ito or
Hattori. The Examiner does state that "at least claim 2 of the Ito et al. reference . . .
discloses that the vehicle is automatically corrected and guided by automatically
adjust[ing] the braking forces of the left and right wheels of the vehicle without the
help of the driver" (See answer at page 6 ( emphasis in original)). We disagree with the
Examiner. We do not find any teaching in the Ito reference at claim 2 regarding "without
the help of the driver." From a complete review of Ito, it is clear, as appellant has argued
throughout the brief, that Ito merely teaches the modification of the braking actuated by the
operator to "provide a stable vehicle behavior during braking by minimizing undesired
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influence of parameter changes." (See Ito at Col.3, lines 42-51 ; Col.6, lines 34-36; Col.
11, lines 1-3; Col. 12, lines 1-3; Col. 13, lines 1-3; Col. 14, lines 8-11.) Therefore, Ito
teaches a control system which independently compensates the actuation by the operator,
but not "activating said
driver-activated wheel brakes in response to said error signal independently of said driver-
5We note that Ito parenthetically mentions use of a "driver's input to an accelerator pedal" which
would be independent of a user's actuation of the braking by an operator, but Ito does not elaborate upon
this teaching. We do not comment further on the use of the accelerator since it has not been presented in
the administrative record.
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