Appeal No. 1997-0212
Application 08/206,669
high reliability of electrical connections, and is
compact and inexpensive. (Page 2, lines 20-25.)
The integrated conductors in accordance with the
present invention integrate the intricate
connections of the ignition device, and are made
compact and lightweight, so that they are easy to
handle and can be readily incorporated into the
case. Since the wire harness is made unnecessary,
erroneous connections are not encountered. (Page 3,
lines 13-17.)
Looking at Figures 13a and 13b of Ida we see a device which
makes it possible to disuse a wiring harness for
interconnecting devices in an ignition system. Pushing the
integrated forks 28 over component wires (e.g. coil wire 71 in
Figure 12) facilitates assembly with a high reliability of
making intricate electrical connections. We find that the
device depicted in Figures 13a and 13b of Ida is an integrated
conductor as described in Appellants’ specification. Although
the material used for terminal base 30 in figure 13a is not
specifically recited in Ida or questioned by Appellants, we
find that a resin would have been the obvious choice. This
finding is based on the fact that terminal base 30 must be of
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