Appeal No. 1999-2248
Application No. 08/960,255
cylindrical portion. The Examiner contends that the claim 10
language, when given its broadest reasonable interpretation,
does not define over the admitted prior art, and that "butt
connection" is nothing more than two objects touching at their
ends.
The Examiner also asserts that the language of the claims
does not preclude the use of thin walled portion (3b).
Turning to claims 1 and 7, we find that the claim
limitation "and fixedly securing said distal end to said first
surface by butt connection means provided at the distal end of
said cylindrical portion where said cylindrical portion abuts
said first surface" is not met by the admitted prior art. The
cylindrical portion of the flange 4a is not fixedly secured to
the first surface of the iron core 3 by butt connection means
at the distal end of the cylinder 4a. As disclosed by
Appellants, the thin wall portion 3b and the cylindrical11
portion 4a are clamped by a pair of electrodes disposed on the
bobbin 5 side and the inner peripheral side of the thin wall
10Examiner's Answer, page 5.
11Specification, page 2.
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