Appeal No. 1998-0659
Application No. 08/264,527
electrical stimulus signal applied to the coil for tinnitus
treatment.
Appellants further assert that the circuit of figure 1 of
this reference provides no modulation of the stimulus signal
because the circuit contains no modulator.
Finally, Appellants argue that the Matsushima signal is8
not a masking noise signal for masking the symptoms of
tinnitus, but rather is an electrical signal applied to a
temporal bone for a predetermined amount of time as part of a
stimulus treatment regimen.
The Examiner contends that figure 6 on page 23 of9
Matsushima illustrates the efficacy between the first and
second coil according to stimulus frequency expressed as a
relation between the gain on the y-axis and the frequency on
the x-axis. As the graph says nothing about conduction
frequency, the
Examiner asserts that the 10 Hz signal is modulated with
respect to the conduction frequency where optimization occurs
around 30 kHz.
8 Brief, page 6, and Reply Brief, page 4.
9 Answer, page 6.
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