Appeal No. 2002-0236
Application No. 08/911,494
fuel rail, like that set forth in claims 1 and 6 through 8 on
appeal.
However, Minagawa discloses that it is conventional in a
fuel supply apparatus for injecting fuel into an intake port of
an internal combustion engine to use a fuel rail to provide high
pressure fuel to the injectors and to keep the pressure of the
fuel supplied to the injectors at a predetermined pressure (see,
for example, col. 1, lines 17-26). Appellants' specification, at
page 1, lines 5-14, also appears to indicate that such an
arrangement was known to be conventional in a fuel injection
system for internal combustion engines.
Based on our evaluation of the collective teachings of
Katayama and Minagawa, we are in agreement with the examiner that
it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at
the time appellants' invention was made to have provided the fuel
injection system of Katayama with a fuel rail like that in
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