Appeal No. 1997-2770
Application No. 08/329,994
includes portions which encircle the wrist and the palm of a
user's hand, a deformable, flexible member connecting the
wrist and palm encircling portions, at least one elongate
resilient rib member coextensive with a finger of the user's
hand, and an annular ring adjacent and attached to the free
end of the rib member. Claim 15 is illustrative of the
claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
15. A manually operable exo-skeletal human/computer
interface device for a computer system comprising a wrist
encircling means being adapted in use to be proximate to and
generally relatively fixed around the associated wrist of one
hand of a user, an overhand member in use overlying the back
of said hand and a deformable member flexibly connecting said
wrist encircling means to said overhand member, further
comprising at least one elongate generally resilient rib
member extending at a fixed end thereof from said overhand
member so as to be generally coextensive with at least one
finger of said hand in order to function in the form of an
exoskeleton thereto, adjacent a free end of said rib member
and spaced therealong from the overhand member at least one
annular ring formation which is adapted in use to receive and
engage at least one finger of the said hand, and at least one
position sensor of the computer system fixed relative to at
least one of the said members.
The prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims is:
Richter 4,575,297 Mar. 11,
1986
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