Appeal No. 2000-0267 Page 3
Application No. 08/856,943
for charging the battery, an electrical contact
disposed to allow electrical contact between the
battery and the means for supplying charging current
on positioning the housing in the cradle member, an
element disposed on the cradle member for
cooperating in abutting relation with a
complementary element fixed in relation to the
housing, and for releasably locking the housing
relative to the cradle member in such a position
that electrical contact between the battery and the
means for supplying charging current is maintained,
wherein the abutting relation is maintained by a
spring bias of the holder and the element disposed
on the cradle member is sized and shaped such that
the housing must be displaced against the spring
bias to disengage the housing from the element
disposed on the cradle member.
(Appeal Br. at i-ii.)
The prior art applied by the examiner in rejecting the
claims follows:
Tomura et al. 5,189,358 Feb. 23,
1993
Mattinger et al. (“Mattinger”), Translation of European
Patent No. 0,341,395, Feb. 17, 1993.
Claims 22-34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
anticipated by Tomura et al. The claims also stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Mattinger in view of
Tomura et al.
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