Appeal No. 2001-0302
Application No. 08/635,614
be called upon to perform a certain amount of experimentation in
order to determine the amount of compression needed, we see no
basis for concluding, as the examiner has done, that said artisan
would be called upon to engage in undue experimentation to
achieve this result.10
In light of the foregoing, we shall not sustain the
examiner’s rejection of the appealed claims under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, first paragraph, based on the enablement requirement
thereof.
The Rejections under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(b) and 103
With reference to appellants’ Figures 1 and 4, claim 1, the
sole independent claim on appeal, is directed to a motor operated
power steering device comprising a steering shaft (3a-3d), a gear
(10) fitted around the steering shaft, a steering assist motor
(8) for transmitting a rotational force via the gear to the
steering shaft, and a torque limiter (11) that includes a torque
setting member (51) fitted between the steering shaft and the
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10Our view in this regard is bolstered by the Wehr reference, of
record and cited by the examiner against appellants’ claims in
certain rejections based on prior art. More specifically, Wehr
discloses an overload coupling remarkably similar to the one
disclosed by appellants, and indicates that it may be readily set
to a desired overload release value.
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