Appeal No. 2001-2393
Application No. 09/197,878
inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA
Corp. v. Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444,
221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
As framed by the appellant, the dispositive issues in the
appeal are whether each of Wessels, Dalum and Foo meet the
limitations in independent claims 1 and 6 relating to the
slope of the filtered acceleration signal. As indicated
above, claim 1 requires the controller recited therein to
function to determine the slope of the filtered acceleration
signal and to periodically adjust the deployment threshold
based on the determined slope provided that the filtered
acceleration signal is within an adjustment range specified
for the detected progression level of the crash event. Method
claim 6 correspondingly requires the steps of determining the
slope of the filtered acceleration signal and periodically
adjusting the deployment threshold based on the determined
slope provided that the filtered acceleration signal is within
an adjustment range specified for the detected progression
level of the crash event.
Wessels and Dalum disclose vehicular restraint systems
and methods having much in common with the system and method
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