Appeal No. 2001-1627
Application No. 09/289,420 Page 10
contrast to a power supply transformer, nor to an inductor
included in both a primary and secondary circuit loop.
With respect to the use of an inductor, we make reference to
our findings, supra, with respect to claim construction of claim
1 being broad enough to read on the two coils of an inductor that
is part of a transformer, as shown in figure 3 of Bang.
With respect to the inductor being included in both a
primary and secondary loop, as we found, supra, the language does
not require that each of the coils are in both circuit loops, but
rather reads on one coil of the inductor being in one circuit
loop and the other coil being in the other circuit loop.
Accordingly, we find two coil transformer T1 of Bang to meet this
limitation of claim 1. With regard to the limitation regarding
the non-electrical isolation of the primary and secondary circuit
loops, The examiner's position (final rejection, page 4) is that
"[f]rom applicant figure 1 it is clear that the capacitor is the
element that doesn't electrically isolated [sic] the two
windings. For the same reason the Yasumura and Bang references
are also not electrically isolated." The examiner additionally
asserts (answer, page 5) that “transformers are generally
electrically isolated. However, with applicants claimed
capacitor connection between the primary and secondary winding,
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