Appeal No. 2001-1853
Application 09/198,217
claim 8. Since appellants have not presented arguments as to any
other claim on appeal, the rejection of the remaining claims is
also sustained.
According to the examiner's general line of reasoning, the
subject matter of independent claim 1 on appeal is essentially
taught or suggested to the artisan in Bullock except for the
feature of a substrate comprising an electrically insulating
material, for which the examiner relies upon Stein to teach the
obviousness of using it in Bullock.
We agree with the examiner's assessment of Bullock that this
reference does not explicitly show electrode coatings on each of
the piezoelectric/piezoelectret bending bars 2 in Bullock's
Figures 1-5. Yet Bullock does clearly allude to or strongly
suggests to the artisan that this feature is known in the art.
According to the teachings associated with Figure 3 in the
paragraph bridging columns 2 and 3 through at least line 17 of
column 3, Bullock clearly teaches that the input terminal 11 is
coupled to the outer surface of each of the bars 2 and that the
terminal 12 in Figure 3 is coupled to the inner or plate-engaging
surface of these bars. This manner of "coupling" is specified
beginning at line 14 where it is indicated that the "[w]ire 9 is
3
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