Appeal No. 2002-0964
Application 09/000,850
from a parts storage and feeding device 6, 7. A nozzle stocker 8
has a plurality of compartments each of which are utilized to
store one of the plurality of nozzles 2. The compartments are in
a straight line, and the holder 8 is oblong. The number of
compartments in the stocker 8 are unspecified, and presumably
this number depends on the number of types of components to be
mounted at this station of the conveyor 4. Appellants’ prior art
Figure 7 shows 6 compartments. Terai discloses 5 compartments
but only 4 parts storage and feeding devices. These exact
numbers are taken as exemplary only. Terai discloses a mounting
data memory device for storing a predetermined mounting sequence
of the electronic components, and Terai discloses a nozzle stock
position memory device for storing data identifying which
compartments hold which nozzles. Both translations agree on this
point. As appellants’ certified translation states, “The nozzles
that are not in use are placed in the holder in predetermined
order.” Page 1, lines 25-26. Finally, Terai discloses some
sort of controller to move the transfer head to the correct
location.
We are in agreement with appellant that Terai does not
explicitly state that he always moves the transfer head to the
next adjacent compartment of the nozzle stocker after all desired
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