Appeal No. 1998-0726
Application 08/434,919
Representative claim 5 is reproduced below: 1
5. An underspeed warning system for a motor vehicle
having left and right turn signals, comprising:
speed sensing means for outputting a speed sensing signal
proportional to the speed of said motor vehicle;
means for providing a reference speed signal;
comparator means for comparing said speed sensing signal
to said reference speed signal and outputting an underspeed
signal when said speed sensing signal is less than said
reference speed signal;
at least one warning indicator;
driver means for activating said at least one warning
indicator in response to said underspeed signal; and
turn signal disable means for inhibiting said driver
means from activating said at least one warning indicator when
at least one of said turn signals is active.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:2
Milde, Jr. (Milde) 4,843,370 June 27,
1989
1 Claim 5 as reproduced in the brief is not claim 5 on
appeal, since claim 5 has been unamended. The original
submitted version of this claim as filed does not include the
words "it and" in the second line of the comparator means
clause of claim 5 as reproduced in the brief. This has been
noted by appellant at page 1 of the Reply Brief.
2 The additional references cited by the examiner at page
3 of the answer have not been considered since they form no
part of the actual, stated rejection of the claims on appeal.
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