Appeal No. 1998-0215
Application No. 08/052,671
We also reverse the examiner’s § 103 rejection of claim
18 as unpatentable over the combined disclosures of Wade and
Mater for the reasons indicated above.
REJECTION BASED ON YOSHIMI
As evidence of obviousness of the subject matter defined
by claims 1 and 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 103, the examiner relies
on the disclosure of Yoshimi. We find that Yoshimi discloses
a disk type insulating material for conductive flat coils.
See pages
2 and 3. We find that the disk-type insulating material is
formed by impregnating either one or both sides of a glass
fiber woven fabric with a heat resistant thermoplastic resin
film by thermocompression bonding. See pages 2 and 7. The
heat resistant thermoplastic resin includes, inter alia,
aromatic polyester, polyphenylene sulfide, and polyether
sulfone. See page 5. We find that appellant acknowledges
that the melting points of polyphenylene sulfide and polyether
sulfone are 527 F and 509 F, respectively, which are eithero o
close to or within the claimed melting point requirement. See
Reply Brief, page 5, together with claim 1. We also find that
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