Appeal No. 1997-2164
Application No. 08/277,468
concurrently with the step of brazing each feedthrough
pin into its respective pin bore.
Independent claim 14 contains similar limitations, including
"simultaneously with the step of brazing each feedthrough pin
into its respective pin bore, brazing the feedthrough plate to
the wall of the vacuum package enclosure." The scope of
dependent claims 13 and 18, includes the device made by the
above method. On page 5 of the Appellants' specification, the
vacuum package enclosure is identified as an enclosure which
is meant to be evacuated, thus the walls of the vacuum package
chamber and the seal of the feedthrough separate ambient air
from the evacuated portion. In summary, we find that the
scope of independent claims 1 and 14 includes a vacuum package
chamber, ceramic feedthrough which has several holes with pins
placed therein, wherein the ceramic feedthrough is brazed
directly to
the vacuum chamber at the same time the pins are brazed to the
ceramic feedthrough.
We find that the scope of independent claim 19, includes
an electrical feedthrough on a vacuum enclosure where there is
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