Appeal No. 1998-0632
Application 08/301,812
Representative claim 45 is reproduced below:
45. A method for monitoring an action station on a
production line where containers which contain liquid pass
through said action station and experience a force which
causes said liquid to be in a dynamic state, comprising:
(a) causing a plurality of containers which contain
liquid to pass through said action station sequentially,
(b) operating on each container at said action station so
that said liquid in each container is in a dynamic state when
each container leaves said action station and so that said
dynamic state asymptotically approaches a final level after
each container leaves said action station,
(c) inspecting optically at several successive times the
liquid level in each of said containers to obtain several
liquid levels for each of said containers as said dynamic
state asymptotically approaches said final level and saving
said liquid levels for each of said containers as a plurality
of saved liquid levels, and
(d) analyzing said saved liquid levels in order to
monitor said action station and predict future final liquid
level.
There no references relied upon by the examiner.
The claims on appeal appear to be rejected under both the
enablement and the written description portions of 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph.
Rather than repeat the positions of the appellants and
the examiner, reference is made to the briefs and the answer
for the respective details thereof.
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