Ex parte HUAT - Page 13




          Appeal No. 1996-2956                                                        
          Application 08/152,192                                                      

               l) at the binning, buttoning and packing station,                      
          automatically segregating ICPUs of common classification while              
          the ICPUs are unenclosed and automatically loading the ICPUs                
          of common classification into empty tubes that are buttoned at              
          one end and automatically buttoning the other end of the tubes              
          when they are loaded with ICPUs of common classification, and               
               m) linking the conditioning station, the environmental                 
          test station, the ambient temperature test station, the                     
          orientation station, the degreasing station, the marking                    
          station, the ultraviolet station, the lead straightening                    
          station and the binning, buttoning and packing station                      
          together in a continuous cooperative assembly to permit the                 
          unenclosed ICPUs to be transported automatically from station               
          to station and integrating all individual operations to form a              
          completely integrated auto testing and finishing system that                
          enables the ICPUs to be automatically transported, while                    
          unenclosed, from station to station such that the automated                 
          linking of stations eliminates manual loading and unloading of              
          ICPUs at each station.                                                      



















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