Appeal No. 1998-1083
Application 08/402,606
Claim 5
Claim 5 does not recite how the first and second
traveling paths are determined and, in particular, it does
not recite the disclosed method of determining the bending
amounts at interpolation points from the bending amounts at
the start point and end point as in claims 1 and 2, where
the locus of bending amounts constitutes the second
traveling path. Further, claim 5 does not require that the
second traveling path is predetermined and, thus, it does
not preclude "determining a second traveling path" on a
point-to-point basis where a path consists of a set of
points.
However, claim 5 recites "determining amount of
displacements between said first traveling path and said
second traveling path" which we interpret to exclude the
second traveling path from being determined from the
displacements. In Appellant's invention, the actual path
points H1', H2', etc. are determined by interpolation from
the displacements at the starting point and ending point and
then the displacements between the desired path and the
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