Appeal No. 2000-0915 Page 2
Application No. 09/064,083
The appellants' invention relates to "a vehicle power
supply system, and is applicable to the prevention of a
vehicle fire which is caused by the power supply damage which
may occur at the time of vehicle collision" (specification, p.
1). A copy of the claims under appeal is set forth in the
appendix to the appellants' brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Balban 3,980,318 Sep. 14, 1976
Kanazawa et al. JP 6-321027 1 Nov. 22, 1994
(Kanazawa)
Claims 1 to 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Kanazawa in view of Balban.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced
by the examiner and the appellants regarding the above-noted
1In determining the teachings of Kanazawa, we will rely
on the translation provided by the USPTO. A copy of the
translation is attached for the appellants' convenience.
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