Appeal No. 96-3964
Application No. 08/225,228
prosecution. An amendment after final rejection was filed on
February 1, 1996 which was entered by the Examiner. This
amendment canceled claims 17-20. Accordingly, this appeal now
involves only claims 10-16.
The claimed invention relates to a disk carrier having a
molded body with two pairs of opposing walls for carrying a
plurality of wafers. A wall portion of one of the walls
includes a recess extending from an edge into the wall portion
into which a radio frequency transponder having a readable
identification code is inserted. The recess is positioned
intermediate the interiorly facing surface and the exteriorly
facing surface of the wall portion.
Representative claim 10 is reproduced as follows:
10. A disk carrier for carrying a plurality of wafers, the
carrier comprising:
a molded body having two pairs of opposing walls, the
pairs of opposing walls joined together to form a generally
rectangular body defining an interior, the body having a
plurality of interiorly facing channels for receiving wafers
in the interior, one of the walls having an integral wall
portion with an inwardly facing surface, an opposite
exteriorly facing surface, and an edge extending from the
interiorly facing surface to the exteriorly facing surface,
the wall portion further having a recess extending from the
edge into the wall portion, the recess positioned intermediate
the interiorly facing surface and the exteriorly facing
surface;
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