Appeal No. 1998-0992
Application 08/706,978
However, in the context of bandgap generators for
generating a temperature stable reference voltage, the
examiner is misplaced to ignore the temperature sensitivities
of the base-emitter voltage V of Henry’s Q7 and to assume
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that it is a constant value. From the appellants’
specification it is abundantly clear that because the first
component is not temperature compensated that the second term
is needed as an offset to produce a sum that is temperature
stable. In the context of the appellants’ invention, it is
without sufficient basis for the examiner to treat the base-
emitter voltage of Henry’s bipolar transistor Q7 as a
constant. Because V is not a constant but V is a constant,be o
the appellants’ claimed feature is not met by the examiner’s
reliance on Henry’s V and V of Q7.o be
To the extent that the examiner regards the configuration
of elements 23 and 24 in Henry as together constituting a
divider circuit, it has not been explained how that
arrangement produces a value for V that is a fixed proportion
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of the base-emitter voltage V of Q7. The examiner has not
be
indicated what that fractional proportion might be in terms of
an expression of the resistance values, i.e., V equals V ofo be
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