Appeal No. 1997-1111 Page 24
Application No. 08/105,899
process characteristics.” The examiner argues (answer, page
14) that “[a]s disclosed in equation 14 two gain factors are
employed for the purpose of correcting for the fuzzification
and defuzzification routines.” In response (reply brief, page
5) appellants state “[o]n further consideration of Ying,
Appellant agrees with the examiner that Ying discusses gain;
however, Ying does not teach or disclose the integral time
constant required by Appellant’s claim 11.”
We note that appellant’s specification (pages 11 and 16)
refers to dynamic process characteristic K as “proportional
c
gain” and (page 15) as “critical gain.” We agree with
appellant that although Ying discusses gain, Ying is silent as
to integral time constant, as required by claim 11. We find
that Ueda discloses (col. 7, lines 17-20) “[t]he expressions
for determining the parameters K , K also are not limited to1 2
those using R and L. It is possible to determine the
parameters based on other identified values, e.g., time
constant or steady gain.” However, Ueda’s disclosure of
determining parameters based upon time constant is not the
same as providing an integral time constant.
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