Appeal No. 1996-4124
Application No. 08/307,088
which grinds two adjacent tooth flanks of adjacent teeth of a
tooth wheel.
Further, claim 28 contains the limitation of
"continuously measuring a grinding force which is applied by
the grinding disc." In determining the scope of this
limitation, we note that the specification does not define
"continuously measuring a grinding force . . . during regular
grinding of the tooth wheel." On page 8 of the specification,
Appellant identifies that each sensor monitoring the grinding
force has an associated analog to digital (A/D) converter
which provides the sensed value to a CPU. Thus, the measured
data is digital, and thereby is a periodic sampling. On page
3 of the specification, Appellant identifies that the force
value is measured during the course of the machining process.
Thus, we find that the scope of the limitation "continuously
measuring a grinding force" limitation includes that the
grinding force is continuously sampled through- out the
grinding of the toothed wheel.
In summary, we find that the scope of independent method
claim 28 includes a specific grinding disc which grinds two
adjacent tooth flanks of adjacent teeth of a tooth wheel,
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