Appeal No. 2001-2265
Application No. 09/151,934
sunshade panel having flanged longitudinal edges. Claim 8 is
illustrative:
8. A method of manufacturing an automotive sunshade panel,
comprising the steps of:
bending a hollow aluminum panel having longitudinal edges by
means of twin rolls consisting of a rigid roll and an elastic
roll and in the roll circumferential direction (Y-Y axis), to
have a radius of curvature of 1000 to 15000 mm, and
flanging said longitudinal edges of said hollow aluminum
panel by press forming or roll forming.
THE REFERENCES
Westaway 471,407 Mar. 22, 1892
Howell 3,150,707 Sep. 29, 1964
Katsumi (JP ‘080)1 8-90080 Apr. 9, 1996
(Japanese kokai)
THE REJECTION
Claims 8-11 and 16-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over JP ‘080 in view of the appellants’
admitted prior art, Westaway and optionally Howell.2
1 Citations herein to JP ‘080 are to an English translation
thereof, a copy of which is provided to the appellants with this
decision.
2 Rejections of claims 8-11 and 16-18 under 35 U.S.C. § 112,
first and second paragraphs, are withdrawn in the examiner’s
answer (pages 2-3).
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