Appeal No. 1998-1533 Page 16
Application No. 08/411,202
mounting the assembly in a cooperating vehicle brake system,
and rivet fasteners 18 utilized to mechanically join friction
pad element 12 to backing plate element 16 with film 14 being
located in an intermediate position. As shown in Figure 1,
the friction pad element 12 has an upper portion opposite a
lower portion wherein the upper portion has an upper width
less than a lower width of the lower portion.
The teachings of Feldmann have been previously set forth
above with respect to claim 1.
Based on the examiner's analysis and review of Hummel and
claim 5, the examiner ascertained (final rejection, p. 7) that
the only difference is the limitation that the upper width in
total is less than about 1/12 of a circumferential length of
said disc rotor at a position where said disc rotor is brought
into frictional engagement with the upper portion of said
friction pad member.
With regard to this difference, the examiner determined
(final rejection, p. 7) that it would have been obvious at the
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