Appeal No. 1997-3678
Application No. 08/485,161
Appellant’s invention pertains to a method of cooling a
surface by nucleate boiling. A basic understanding of the
invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
a copy of which appears in the APPENDIX to the amended brief
(Paper No. 28).
As evidence of anticipation and obviousness, the examiner
has applied the documents listed below:
Chu et al. 4,050,507 Sep. 27,
1977
(Chu)
Reeber et al. 709,574 May 18,
1965
(Reeber)
Hesketh, Peter J., “THE EMITTANCE OF HEAVILY DOPED
MICROCONFIGURED SILICON SURFACES”, A DISSERTATION IN
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER 2,
pages 42 through 53, 1987. (the Hesketh dissertation)
Marto, P. J. and Lepere, Lt. V. J., “Pool Boiling Heat
Transfer From Enhanced Surfaces to Dielectric Fluids”,
Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 104,
pages 292 through 299, May 1982. (the Marto and Lepere
article)
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