Appeal No. 2002-0584
Application 08/321,028
pages 1 and 2 in the reply brief), the reference combination does
not involve any undesirable redundancies.
Accordingly, we shall sustain the standing 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) rejection of claim 1 as being unpatentable over Weisman
in view of Takeuchi.
III. Claim 10
Independent claim 10 recites a method of controlling fuel
delivery to a cylinder of an internal combustion engine
comprising, inter alia, the steps of determining pilot and main
quantities of fuel to be delivered by a fuel injector and
determining pilot and main amounts of time for energizing the
fuel injector to deliver these quantities of fuel, “wherein
determining the pilot amount of time and determining the main
amount of time are performed independently of angular
measurements associated with an engine crankshaft.” As indicated
above, angular displacement of the crankshaft constitutes a
factor in Weisman’s determination of pilot and main amounts of
time for energizing a fuel injector. There is nothing in the
combined teachings of Weisman and Takeuchi which would have
suggested making this determination independent of the angular
displacement of the crankshaft.
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