Appeal No. 98-0130 Page 12
Application No. 08/631,793
We therefore find that Gillett discloses that secondary
windings (28, 30 and 32) and secondary structures (50, 52 and
54), are separable from the remainder of the circuit,
resulting in two complementary subset structures (120 and 140)
in order to include most of the heavy and bulky elements on
subset (120) so that they may be carried by a machine frame
and subset (140) might be part of a circuit card pluggable
into the machine frame (col. 3, lines 63-66). However, Snow
is concerned with having a regulator circuit in which “the
number of components and manufacturing costs are reduced”
(col. 1, lines 56-57). As Snow is concerned with reducing
both the number of components and the manufacturing costs, and
teaches away from mechanically separating the primary-side and
secondary-side assemblies, we find no teaching or suggestion
to increase the number of components, as well as the
manufacturing costs, by separating the primary-side and
secondary-side circuit assemblies into mechanically separate
components. As Snow teaches away from mechanically separating
the primary and secondary circuit assemblies, we therefore
find no suggestion or teaching in the prior art to separate
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