Appeal No. 1997-0500
Application 08/404,704
C) electrical supply terminal means for separable mating
with said input terminal means of said gauge for supplying
such an electrical input signal to said input terminal means;
D) means defining an installed position for said gauge
relative to said instrument panel wherein said gauge is
disposed in registration with said aperture for removal from
the installed position by being extracted via said aperture,
and wherein said electrical supply terminal means are
separably mated with said input terminal means; and
E) bezel means comprising:
l) a front bezel portion that is disposed axially
forward of and overlaps both said aperture and said
marginal edge portion of said instrument panel and that
allows said front display to be viewed by an observer with
said gauge being in the installed position; and
2) gauge extraction means that extends axially
rearward from said front bezel portion through said
aperture, and, upon said bezel means being bodily
displaced axially forward, engages the installed gauge
to cause said gauge to be bodily displaced axially forward,
and thereby extracted from the installed position.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Leone 3,807,236 Apr. 30, 1974
Wetterhorn et al. (Wetterhorn) 4,753,112 June 28, 1988
Claims 1-31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As
evidence of obviousness the examiner offers Leone in view of
Wetterhorn.
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