Appeal No. 2001-2671 Page 12
Application No. 09/258,155
with several roof components which can be activated partially
independently of one another and which can be activated by
separate motors; the switch, as it turns in different
peripheral areas, triggering individual or multiple motors in
succession or at the same time for starting predetermined
opening stages.
Claim 1 is not anticipated by Weissrich. In that regard,
Weissrich does not disclose the step of moving a single
triggering element, for both the opening and closing operating
directions of a vehicle roof. Weissrich uses a rotary switch
21 with a single rotary knob and as the rotary knob is rotated
it activates different triggering elements to open and close
the vehicle roof, not a single triggering element, for both
the opening and closing operating directions of a vehicle
roof. Furthermore, Weissrich does not disclose the step of
sensing whether the roof is fully open. In our view, this
step in not readable on a person looking at the roof and
noticing that the roof is fully open. Instead, this step
requires a sensing device determining whether the roof is
fully open. Additionally, Weissrich does not disclose the
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