Appeal No. 1997-2164
Application No. 08/277,468
are holes to accept pins, and each pin is brazed to the
ceramic plate. The Examiner also identifies that "Guillotin
et al lacks an enclosure and brazing the feedthrough plate to
the enclosure." On page 4 of the answer, the Examiner makes
the same assertions concerning Oescheger as discussed above.
Appellants assert on page 8 of the brief that the
rejection of Guillotin and Oeschger, is improper for the same
reasons asserted with respect to the rejection based upon
Mizuhara and Oeschger.
We find that the combination of Guillotin and Oeschger
does not teach or suggest brazing a ceramic feedthrough plate
directly to a vacuum package enclosure, where the feedthrough
has several holes with pins brazed in the holes. We find that
Guillotin teaches a method of brazing a conductor into a hole
in a ceramic feedthrough. See column 1, lines 1 through 9.
Guillotin teaches that the method produces a fluid-tight seal
between the conductor and the ceramic feedthrough. See column
2, lines 26 through 34. We find that Guillotin does not teach
an enclosure, or that the ceramic feedthrough is brazed to the
enclosure. As identified above, we find that Oeschger neither
teaches brazing the ceramic feedthrough to the enclosure nor
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