Appeal No. 98-0516
Application No. 08/400,328
Claim 16 adds to claim 15 the requirement that the
translating circuit (which as recited in claim 15 matches the
desired fork position with the stored arm position) includes a
memory device for storing a look-up table which relates a
plurality of stored arm positions to a corresponding plurality
of fork positions. As explained on pages 3 and 5 of the
Edelhoff translation, manual and mechanical means are
undesirable to control the relationship between the forks and
the arms as the arms are raised and therefore, as set forth on
page 6, Edelhoff utilizes a central computer unit that
responds to signals to calculate the proper path for the
container. However, the reference is silent as to the details
of the system required by claim 16, merely stating that the
path is “based on a program passed forward and correspondingly
over known control devices” (translation, page 6). Nielson
discloses a control system for a hydraulic excavator in which
look-up tables are utilized to correlate a stored arm position
matching the actual arm position into a desired bucket
position, the result being an output to control the mechanism
that places the bucket in the desired position. While it is
true that the implements with which these look-up tables are
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