Appeal No. 1997-2455
Application 08/318,235
power storage portion, and when the power from the transducer
is insufficient the stored power is supplied to the tag.
Turning to the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 103. On page
4 of the answer, the Examiner states that Beigel does not
teach the claimed two-stage power developer. We agree.
Beigel teaches that the power to the tag is supplied by an
AC/DC converter connected to the transducer. See column 5,
lines 19 through 23. We fail to find that Beigel teaches
storage of some of the power for use when the power supplied
from the transducer is insufficient. We find that Schuermann
teaches a transponder tag which receives a radio frequency
(RF) interrogation signal from a reader through a resonant
circuit. The energy coupled through this resonant circuit is
stored in a capacitor, item 136. See column 4, lines 48
through 52, and column 4, line 65 through column 5, line 1.
After the voltage is high enough and the RF signal has ceased,
the stored energy is used to power the circuits of the tag.
See column 5, lines 18 through 36. Switch 156 supplies power
to the circuits from capacitor 136. We find that Schuermann
does not provide power to the tag’s components directly from
the transducer.
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