Appeal No. 98-1499
Application No. 08/392,493
in one embodiment of the heat exchanger of this
invention, one heating fluid facial subchannel
and one cooling fluid facial subchannel on a
common facial surface of a plate can be mutually
aligned in a first heat exchange relationship
and the disclosure at page 10, lines 15-17, that the heating
and cooling fluid subchannels on the common facial surface can
each have a "linear" flow path.
In contrast with the examiner’s determination quoted
above from page 7 of the answer, we understand the claims on
appeal to require, with regard to embodiment (i), that the
first heating fluid facial subchannel set and the first
cooling fluid facial subchannel set each have a linear flow
path, that is, that the entirety of the flow path associated
with each of the heating and cooling facial subchannel sets
in the common facial surface of a heat exchange plate must be
linear. Since we agree with appellant’s arguments on pages 4-
6 of the brief that Takeshita does not disclose or teach an
arrangement of heating and cooling fluid facial subchannel
sets which each have a linear flow path as required in the
claims before us on appeal (i.e., what appellant and the
examiner have each referred to as the "first embodiment"), we
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