Appeal No. 97-0866
Application 07/801,248
the fact that the Winterberg references disclose "intense"
beams, that one of ordinary skill in the particle beam art
would have known what was meant without a numerical
definition. This reason for the § 112, second paragraph,
rejection is reversed.
35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
Linlor discloses an apparatus and method to produce
nuclear fusion. High energy beams of neutral deuterium
2 3
atoms ( H or D) and tritium atoms ( H or T) or high energy1 1
2+ 2+
beams of molecular ions, D and T , are injected along the
axis of the machine and are irradiated by laser beams so
that a change in charge state occurs (e.g., col. 8,
lines 43-48; col. 22, lines 37-41). The deuterium atoms are
ionized into deuterons (D ) and the tritium atoms are+
ionized into tritons (T ). When injecting molecular ions,+
the molecular ion D is ionized into the neutral atom D and2+
D ion and the neutral atom D is subsequently ionized into a+
D ion and an electron (col. 19, lines 29-39); a similar+
ionization reaction occurs for T . The deuterium atom or2+
deuteron velocity is sufficiently great to overtake the
tritium atom or triton at a relative velocity which produces
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