Appeal No. 98-0580
Application No. 07/728,042
(i) a first energy-storing capacitor having a first
pair of capacitor terminals across which a first DC voltage
exists;
(ii) a second energy-storing capacitor having a
second pair of capacitor terminals across which a second DC
voltage exists; and
(iii) a second assembly connected in circuit between
the capacitor terminals and the AC output terminals; the
second assembly being operative: (a) to cause current to be
supplied from the DC input terminals to the two energy-storing
capacitors, but only when the absolute instantaneous magnitude
of the AC source voltage is larger than the sum of the first
DC voltage and the second DC voltage; and (b) to cause the
first energy-storing capacitor to supply current to the DC
input terminals whenever the absolute instantaneous magnitude
of the AC source voltage is lower than that of the first DC
voltage.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Kornrumpf et al. (Kornrumpf) 4,053,813 Oct.
11, 1977
Pivnyak et al. (Pivnyak) 3 459,833 July 8,
1975
Dale et al. (Dale), “Conversion of incandescent lamp sockets
to fluorescent in the home market,” SOURCES, March 1976, pages
18 through 23.
Claims 19 through 29 and 31 stand rejected under the
second paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 as being indefinite for
failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the
subject matter which appellant regards as the invention.
3A copy of the translation of this USSR Inventor's
Certificate is attached.
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