Appeal No. 1996-3659
Application No. 08/237,484
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner’s refusal to allow claims 1 through 18 which are all
of the claims in the application.
THE INVENTION
The invention is directed to a vapor deposition method
for coating a substrate with a porous zeolite film. The
method includes irradiating a porous zeolite target with a
pulsed laser beam to vaporize the zeolite in a three-
dimensional plume and intercept the plume on a substrate to
form a porous zeolitic film.
A separate embodiment is drawn to a sensor comprising a
piezoelectric substrate having a porous zeolitic film coated
thereon, formed by irradiating a porous zeolite with a pulsed
laser beam to vaporize the zeolite into a three-dimensional
plume. The plume is thereafter intercepted on the substrate
to form the porous zeolite film.
THE CLAIMS
Claims 1 and 10 are illustrative of appellants’
invention and are reproduced below.2
2Claim 10 inappropriately contains an “A” after the
conclusion of the claim in the Appendix of the Brief. Claim
10 in the body of the record does not contain, “A”. Hence its
2
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007