Appeal No. 1999-0519
Application 08/728,224
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1 through 4 and 7 through 10.
Claims 5, 6,
11 and 12, the only other claims remaining in the application,
stand withdrawn from further consideration under 37 CFR
§ 1.142(b).
Appellant’s invention relates to a method for con-
trolling lateral vibration in a rotating shaft and to a shaft
assembly which implements that method. A copy of independent
claims 1 and 7 can be found in the Appendix to appellant’s
brief.
The sole prior art reference relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Hamada et al. (Hamada) 5,593,144 Jan. 14, 1997
(filed May 1,
1995)
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