Appeal No. 1998-1008
Application No. 08/574,358
a sensor for sensing at least a
portion of at least one of a time
function, a velocity profile and a
position profile of the movable die
section during movement of the movable
die section from a second position
toward a first position and producing
an output signal indicative thereof,
wherein at said first position the
movable die section is operably
arranged with a second die section for
formation of a product, wherein at
said second position the movable die
section is spaced from the second die
section a sufficient distance to allow
ejection of a formed product from
between the movable die section and
the die section.
Appellants’ argument on pages 9 and 10 of their brief
seems to be predicated on the fact that Sato’s detector 31 is
not involved in controlling the movement of movable die
section 16 during the entire movement from the second
(ejection) position to the first (molding) position, but claim
24 is not so limited.
It is well settled that claims are to be given their broadest
reasonable interpretations, and limitations are not to be read
into them from the specification. In re Van Geuns, 988 F.2d
1181, 1184, 26 USPQ2d 1057, 1059 (Fed. Cir. 1993). Here,
claim 24 expressly does not require that the sensor sense more
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