Appeal No. 1998-0514
Application 08/523,907
the interior of the molded article and cracking occurs
therein” (column 4, lines 1-4). Gomi’s solution to this prior
art problem is to carefully select the orientation angle, the
orientation order, and the thickness of each layer of the
laminate so that a compressive
stress always occurs, whereby interlaminar cracking or a
generation of strain is controlled (column 2, lines 25-34;
column 4, lines 9-13). In addition, “by making the linear
expansion coefficient in the axial direction of the CFRP outer
layer much smaller than the average linear expansion
coefficient in the axial direction of other layers except the
CFRP outer layer, the linear precision of the formed roll
after the peripheral polishing is greatly improved” (column 2,
lines 34-39). Gomi states that the roll may be used as “a
delivery roll, guide roll or printing roll for use during the
processing of a film, foil, paper, cloth or the like” (column
1, lines 9-11).
Independent Claim 1
Considering first the rejection of claim 1, this
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