Appeal No. 2000-1332
Application No. 08/793,242
does not cure the foregoing deficiencies of the basic
Yamaguchi-Cribari combination with respect to parent
claim 10.
We shall sustain, however, the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) rejection of independent claim 11 as being
unpatentable over Yamaguchi in view of Cribari.
The heat exchanger disclosed by Yamaguchi meets all
of the limitations in claim 11 except for those requiring
the tubular wall to be "deformed in two regions of its
perimeter distinct from the region in which said [tube]
openings are formed to immobilize each of said
partitions, said two regions being disposed approximately
symmetrically with each other with respect to an axial
plane of the tubular wall passing through said openings."
As indicated above, Yamaguchi does not specify the nature
of the press-generated deformations which fix the
positions of the plugs and partitions in the header
pipes. Nonetheless, Cribari's disclosure that localized,
symmetrically-disposed, deformed regions or "dimples" 24
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