Appeal No. 2001-0609
Application No. 08/903,484
As noted on page 2 of the specification, appellants'
invention relates to an output bearing assembly for a
transmission in which a pair of output bearings are spaced
apart and at least one speedometer sensor is mounted between
the bearings. See Figure 1B of the application drawings.
Appellants indicate that such an arrangement with the
speedometer sensor between the bearings allows the bearings to
be separated by a greater distance than in the prior art
without any necessary increase in the total length of the
transmission. The increase in distance between the bearings
of the output bearing assembly is also said to be advantageous
in that it reduces radial displacement of the output shaft. A
copy of independent claim 16 can be found in the Appendix to
appellants' brief.
The sole prior art reference of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claim is:
Dougherty '358 5,494,358 Feb.
27, 1996
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