Appeal No. 1998-1364
Application 08/722,384
Claim 18 further recites "a first transducer disposed at
the first location of the sensing structure for providing a
first sense signal representative of an error component
introduced by a membrane stress in the sensing structure in
response to the physical condition." At this point, we see a
contradiction that prevents claim 18 from reading on Huck.
The temperature sensors in Huck, which correspond to the first
transducer in the Examiner's interpretation, do not produce
"an error component introduced by a membrane stress in the
sensing structure in response to the physical condition"
because the "physical condition" has to be the kind of
condition that produces bending, e.g., a pressure, not just
any physical condition, e.g., temperature. We find that
claim 18 is not anticipated by Huck. Claims 19-21, which
depend on claim 18 and are rejected as being anticipated by,
or unpatentable over, Huck incorporate the limitations of
claim 18 and are patentable thereover. Inoue, which is
applied to the rejection of claim 22 to show an error
compensation circuit, does not cure the deficiency of Huck
with respect to claim 18. For these reasons, the rejections
of claims 18-22 are reversed.
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