Appeal No. 1997-3956
Application 08/583,960
page 11 only states that Figure 3 shows a high reference
voltage VRH and a low reference voltage VRL are divided by the
resistor string formed by 16 series-connected resistors R1.
Those resistors R1 have the same resistance. The
specification does not disclose that the resistance must be
sufficient to avoid influencing the determined regions of the
second voltage-dividing element.
We further note that on page 22 of the specification that
Appellant discloses that the present invention is not limited
to the above described embodiments that may be modified in
various manners as follows. Appellant further discloses that
the capacitors R1 to R4 may be replaced by four resistors
having the same resistance. Appellant does disclose that the
series-connected resistors are connected and parallel to the
resistors R1, so that the replaced resistors could have a
sufficiently large resistance to avoid influencing resistant
R1. However, the specification does not describe that the
resistor value for R1 should be sufficiently large to avoid
influencing the determined regions of the second voltage-
dividing elements.
In view of the above rationale we find that claim 6 is
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