Ex parte HARA et al. - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1996-2637                                                            
          Application No. 08/190,566                                                      

               wherein:                                                                   
               t  is a distance in mm in the mold closing direction                       
                1                                                                         
          between the male and female mold portions when the resin                        
          material first reaches the mating edge of the male mold                         
          portion; and                                                                    
               t  is a distance in mm in the mold closing direction                       
                0                                                                         
          between the same points on the male and female mold portions                    
          as those used for measuring t , when the mold closing is                        
                                         1                                                
          complete; and                                                                   
               making width of the mating gap between the male and                        
          female mold portions from 0.02 to 0.1 mm.                                       
               The prior art references of record relied upon by the                      
          examiner are:                                                                   
          Bielfeldt                            3,632,729                  Jan.            
          4, 1972                                                                         
          Dannels et al. (Dannels)             4,309,379                  Jan.            
          5, 1982                                                                         
          Takahashi                            4,715,804                  Dec.            
          29, 1987                                                                        
          Robin et al. (Robin)            1,177,705                 Jan. 14,              
          1970                                                                            
          (Great Britain)                                                                 
          Mafilios, “Designing molds to cut thermoset scrap,” Plastic                     
          Engineering, pp. 35-38, (October 1984).                                         
          Sors et al. (Sors), “Design of Plastic Moulds and Dies,”                        
          Studies in Polymer Science, Vol. 3, p. 17 (1989).                               
               The appealed claims stand rejected as follows:                             
          (1) Claims 4 through 11 and 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as                      
          anticipated by the disclosure of Robin;                                         


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