Appeal No. 98-2005
Application No. 08/571,156
examiner, we have reached the determination that the
respective rejections posited by the examiner will not be
sustained. Our reasoning follows.
Appellants and the examiner appear to be in agreement
that the Admitted Prior Art and Aoki each disclose or teach
the claimed subject matter except for the cushion (claims 1
and 9) or spring cushion (claim 19) which cushions movement of
the stop and second gear of a vehicle transmission transfer
case actuator as said stop approaches a fail-safe stop surface
at the ends of its range of travel. To supply this
deficiency, the examiner has turned to the teachings of Buhl.
Buhl discloses a windshield wiper drive wherein the wiper
spindle (1) performs a rotational movement to-and-fro, thus
reversing or inverting its sense of rotation repeatedly during
operation each time after rotating through a selected wiping
angle. Buhl notes (col. 1, lines 27-31) that the inversion
should take place as smoothly as possible, that is,
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