Appeal No. 1998-1418
Application 08/313,249
contacts the upper end face of the pump shaft when the mesh plate
is vibrated. As seen in Figure 6, the mesh plate 14 comprises a
plate body with recesses 14b between mutually adjacent minute
holes 14a, wherein the peripheral wall surfaces of the minute
holes project from the inlet side toward the outlet side. Also,
a method of controlling an ultrasonic inhaler is disclosed,
which requires measuring the ON and OFF times of the ultrasonic
vibrator for determining a learned automatic intermittent opera-
tive cycle as well as having a continuous application mode for
the inhaler.
Claims 1, 28, 38 and 46 are representative of the
subject matter before us on appeal and a copy of those claims 1 is
attached to this decision.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting claims 1, 4, 8, 10, 11, 13 through 15, 20
through 22, 28, 29, 31 through 33, 38 through 40 and 46 are:
1 The claims supplied by appellants with the supplemental
brief filed June 10, 1997 are substantially correct but include
extraneous numbers in claims 21 and 38 that are not part of the
claims.
3
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