Interference No. 104,314
Sauer Inc. v. Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
6. For efficiency purposes, the parties requested and the administrative patent judge
approved that the parties would submit exhibits sufficient in number for only one interference
and that papers in all related interferences would make reference to the same set of exhibits.
7. In this interference, the sole count is stated in the Notice Declaring Interference
(Paper No. 1) as Sauer's claim 1 or Kanzaki's claim 10.
8. Sauer's claim I reads as follows:
A hydrostatic transaxle having a housing with an interior cavity, an axle
assembly in said housing including a differential assembly, the improvement
comprising,
a hydrostatic transmission mounted within said cavity and including a
generally L-shaped member completely housed within said cavity and having first
and second hydrostatic unit mounting surfaces thereon disposed at right angles to
each other,
at least a pair of fluid ports in each of said mounting surfaces,
and internal passageways in said L-shaped member connecting at least one
of said fluid ports on one of said mounting surfaces with at least one of said fluid
ports on the other of said mounting surfaces,
said L-shaped member comprising first and second legs integrally joined
and extending at right angles to each other,
said first leg having first and second opposite surfaces with said first
mounting surface being located on said first surface,
said second leg having a first surface extending at right angles away from
the first surface of said first leg, and a second surface opposite to the first surface
of said second leg with the other of said mounting surfaces being on said second
surface of said second leg,
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