Appeal No. 1997-1425
Application No. 08/520,228
circumstances is not sufficient." Id. at 1269, 20 USPQ2d at
1749 (quoting In re Oelrich, 666 F.2d 578, 581, 212 USPQ 323,
326 (CCPA 1981)).
Since Appellants and the Examiner agree that Oshida does
not disclose thickness and/or roughness detectors, we have
thoroughly reviewed Oshida for an inherent teaching of such.
Looking at the abstract, under PURPOSE, we discern that clear
transferring (i.e., printing) requires a proper transfer
pressure which can be affected by differences in material such
as thickness and roughness of paper. Under CONSTITUTION in
the abstract we read that an angular detection encoder varies
the transfer pressure. “As a result, the transfer pressure
can be variably adjusted in accordance with the kinds of
material to be transferred... resulting in allowing to perform
clear transferring by proper transfer pressure.” At page 6 of
the translation Oshida states “The transfer pressure can be
adjusted by the pressure given to the coil spring which is
operated based on the signal count per minute generated by the
detected angle encoder.” And at page 9 of the translation it
states “Therefore, a clear image can be obtained at a specific
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