Appeal No. 99-1752
Application 08/632,955
such that the force acting on said bracket by said return
spring extends along a line which is parallel to the direction
of the force applied to said control lever by said pull member
but in opposite direction.”
As elaborated upon below, we are in basic agreement with
the view of appellants (brief, page 3) that in the Tamaki
document “[n]o consideration is given to providing the least
possible bearing forces and no structure is shown or described
which would provide such a result.”
Our review of the throttle valve actuating apparatus of
Tamaki reveals silence on any concern for the transverse
forces acting on the shaft 3 and, more particularly, a lack of
an express or inherent teaching of the required parallel force
relationship of claim 1, as recited, supra. While the Tamaki
disclosure explicitly addresses bearings 5 (column 4, lines 3
through 8), hooking portions of two springs for hooking to
projecting portions 13 and 4a (column 10, lines 60 through
63), and certain forces acting on end portions of the return
spring member (column 11, lines 19 through 26), we find that
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