Appeal No. 97-0655
Application 08/294,913
satisfying this limitation of the claim. After a careful
consideration of the disclosure and drawings of Pease, we
agree with appellant that magnet 80 cannot meet the
recitations of claim 1. First, it can be seen from Figure 5
of Pease that magnet 80 only works with switch 22' when the
deadbolt is outside the receptacle (unlocked condition). That
is, when the deadbolt is in the locked position, switch 14 is
in the dashed position of Figure 5 and switch 22' and magnet
80 are disconnected from the device. Second, magnet 80 works
in conjunction with switch 22' and not with deadbolt 18.
Figure 7B of Pease clearly shows that the switch 22' and the
deadbolt 18 are not axially aligned.
Therefore, magnet 80 only determines when switch 22' is near
the magnet and is not related in any way to the condition of
the deadbolt in the receptacle unit. Basically, magnet 80
only determines if the door has been opened from its closed
condition when the deadbolt is in the unlocked position.
From the above discussion, it is clear that Pease does
not teach a unit formed in the receptacle unit for detecting
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