Appeal No. 1998-0912
Application 08/413,521
me[m]brane can be placed anywhere in the tank wall.
This means that when liquid is used in Bolton, port
13 must be kept above the liquid, thus severely limiting
container orientation. Nor can port 13 be eliminated. Column
3, lines 20-32 indicate that sealing port 13 would weaken the
tensile strength of the kraft paper from 90% of its initial
strength to 70%.
Furthermore, if Bolton’s air space were used in
Chardine, Chardine’s purpose would be destroyed. Chardine
totally fills its container with liquid to make the circuit
“capable of resisting significant [external] pressures”
(translation-page 2). An air space would detract from this
pressure capability. Moreover, Chardine provides for liquid
thermal expansion via elastic deformation of the container.
Note page 5 of the translation wherein it states, “a variation
if the volume of the fluorocarbon due to a later temperature
variation will be absorbed by an elastic deformation of the
hood.” Thus Chardine already provides for thermal expansion
of the liquid.
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