Appeal No. 1997-0736
Application No. 08/384,916
view of Ito, Takahashi, and Morikawa.
The teaching in the added Morikawa patent does not
overcome the deficiencies of the other applied prior art as
regards the subject matter of claim 1. Thus, we are
constrained to reverse the rejection of claims 10, 11, 15, and
16.
REMAND TO THE EXAMINER
We remand this application to the examiner to consider
the combined teachings of the Ozawa patent in view of the Ito
reference as to whether they would have been suggestive of
substituting the alternative of a single rotary valve for the
plurality of rotary exhaust control valves in a respective
cylinder bank of a V-type engine (the Ozawa teaching; column
2, lines 59 through 66, and Figs. 7 and 8, for example) in
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