Appeal No. 98-0680
Application No. 08/685,160
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
and 18-36, the only claims present in the application.
We AFFIRM-IN-PART.
The appellants' invention pertains to an inflatable
restraint air bag module assembly of the type using a non-
symmetric or "hybrid" gas inflator and to a vehicular
inflatable restraint system utilizing such an assembly.
Independent claims 1 and 25 are further illustrative of the
appealed subject matter and copies thereof may be found in the
appendix to the brief.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Sakurai 4,925,209 May 15,
1990
Good 5,069,480 Dec.
3, 1991
Rion 5,308,108 May
3, 1994
Claims 1, 18-24 and 26-29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Good in view of Rion.
Claims 25 and 30-36 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Good in view of Rion and Sakurai.
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