Appeal No. 1998-1408 Page 12
Application No. 08/569,529
windings, increasing board mounting efficiency, maximizing
coupling efficiency, and maximizing heat dissipation would
have suggested the desirability, and thus the obviousness, of
combining Dirk’s teachings with those of Sato.
Second, the appellants argue, “claim 1 recites that
elongated conductors are printed on the flexible sheet. Sato
does not disclose such printed conductors. Rather, the
conductors of Sato appear to be discrete leads/wires 4
contained within a belt.” (Appeal Br. at 4.) They add, “The
leads 25, 35 of Dirks are not ‘printed’ because they extend
from the ends of bridges 23 and 24; a ‘printed’ conductor must
be printed on a backing material for support and cannot extend
from a bridge without such support.” (Id.) The examiner
replies, “Printed conductors on a flexible sheet which is
flexed or folded to compute a coil are clearly shown by Layton
et al.” (Examiner’s Answer at 4.)
Representative claims 1 specifies in pertinent part the
following limitations: “a flexible dielectric sheet and
elongated conductors printed on said sheet ....” In other
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