Appeal No. 1998-1008
Application No. 08/574,358
is being moved in the other direction. Presumably, insofar as
Sato’s disclosure is concerned, the movable mold 16 would be
moved to the open (ejection) position merely by applying
pressure to the right side of the piston in cylinder 18, and
there is no disclosure that such pressure is controlled (and
certainly not controlled "at all times" as required by claim
21) in response to any signals from sensor 31. The relevance
of the examiner’s statement on page 4 of the answer that
Sato’s sensor 31 senses at least a portion of the position
profile during the injection phase is not apparent, since
claim 21 is concerned with the opening or ejection phase,
rather than the injection phase.
Accordingly, the rejection of independent claim 21, as
well as dependent claims 22 and 23, will not be sustained.
Claims 24 to 26
Insofar as relevant to this decision, independent claim
24 essentially differs from claim 21 in that it is concerned
with movement of the movable die section in the opposite
direction, i.e., from the second (ejection) position toward
the first (closed) position. As recited in lines 9 to 16 of
the claim, the system includes:
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