Appeal No. 1997-3912
Application 08/016,979
Representative claim 42 is reproduced below:
42. A method of processing a plurality of workpieces by
a working system including a working machine for successively
processing the workpieces, machine control means for
determining a working condition of said working machine on the
basis of an extraneous signal, and controlling said working
machine according to the determined working condition, and a
measuring device for measuring actual dimensions of working
portions of the workpieces processed by said working machine,
said method comprising the steps of:
determining as said extraneous signal a compensating
value for adjusting said working condition of said machine for
the workpieces to be processed subsequently by said machine,
on the basis of the actual dimensions of the working portion
of the workpieces which have been measured by said measuring
device, and according to a compensation rule which changes
with a change in a dynamic variation amount of measured values
of said actual dimensions successively obtained by said
measuring devices, and
according to a compensation rule which changes with a
change in a variation amount of measured values of said actual
dimensions successively obtained by said measuring device; and
applying said compensating value to said machine control
means.
The following reference is relied upon by the examiner:
Moyer et al. (Moyer) 4,719,586 Jan. 12,
1988
Claims 39 through 42 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Moyer. This was a new ground
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