Appeal No. 1997-2652
Application 08/385,509
10. An apparatus comprising:
a first printed circuit board supporting a plurality
of electrical components, a first one of said plurality of
electrical components being mounted on a first side of said
first printed circuit board, said first printed circuit board
having holes therein, said first electrical circuit component
having one or more pins each passing through one of said holes
in said first printed circuit board and each protruding from
an opposite side of said first printed circuit board;
a second printed circuit board having one or more
holes and being mounted to said opposite side of said first
printed circuit board with said one or more pins of said first
electrical component protruding through at least one of said
holes in said second printed circuit board, said second
printed circuit board
being vertically in alignment with said first electrical com-
ponent and being comparably smaller in length and width than
said first printed circuit board.
The reference relied on by the Examiner is as
follows:
Damon 3,891,898 June 24,
1975
On page 2 of the Examiner's answer, the Examiner
states that claims 1 and 3 through 7 are allowed for the
reasons that the device has a second printed circuit board
being mounted directly to the opposite side of the first
printed circuit board, the second printed circuit board being
mounted solely by having the pins protrude through at least
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