Appeal No. 97-4249
Application No. 08/249,400
apparatus (Figure 1) and the inventive apparatus (Figure 3),
utilize a pair of serpentine heat exchangers, with the
improvement provided by Oogushi being the use of full length
plates 11 (Figure 3) rather than partial length plates 8
(Figure 1).
The teachings of the other references applied against
independent claims 11 and 16, as well as against various of
the dependent claims, fail to alleviate the deficiencies
pointed out above.
It is our conclusion that the teachings of the references
applied against independent claims 1, 11 and 16 fail to
establish a prima facie case of obviousness with regard to the
subject matter recited in each, and we therefore will not
sustain the
rejections of these claims or of the others, all of which
depend
from them.
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