Appeal No. 1998-0865
Application No. 08/488,455
2. A piezoelectric device comprising:
a ceramic substrate with at least one thin-walled region
defining at least one recess within said substrate, said thin-
walled region being curved into said recess; and
at least one piezoelectric transducer formed on the
concave side of said thin-walled region of the substrate, said
piezoelectric transducer being in the form of a film and
including a piezoelectric layer arranged between two electrode
layers, said piezoelectric transducer being curved in the same
direction as said thin-walled region.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Hubbard 4,635,079 Jan. 06, 1987
Takeuchi et al. (Takeuchi I) 5,210,455 May 11, 1993
Takeuchi et al. (Takeuchi II) EP 0,468,798 Jan. 29, 1992
Claims 2 through 6 and 8 through 12 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Takeuchi I or II in
view of Hubbard.
Reference is made to the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 28,
mailed October 24, 1997) for the examiner's complete reasoning
in support of the rejections, and to appellants' Brief (Paper
No. 27, filed September 18, 1997) and Reply Brief (Paper No.
30, filed December 15, 1997) for appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
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