Appeal No. 1997-1573
Application No. 08/276,551
allowable subject matter but are objected to as being
dependent on a rejected base claim . 1
The claimed invention relates to an active vibration
control system for controlling vibrations resulting from an
excitation source acting on a structure. The control system
includes a controller connected between an output sensor and a
reaction force actuator with the controller including a system
identifier for developing a relationship between the sensor
output and the reaction force. More particularly, Appellant
indicates at page 23 of the specification that the system
identifier includes a Hopfield based neural network for
learning the dynamics of the structure and for providing
output signals that follow the state variables of the
structure.
Claim 1, the only independent claim on appeal, is
illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:
1In a communication (paper no. 15) filed May 25, 1999,
Appellant indicates a request to withdraw claims 5, 10 through
14 and 17 through 24 from the application. The issue of the
merits of this request is moot since these claims are either
allowed or indicated as containing allowable subject matter
and are therefore not before us in this appeal.
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