Appeal No. 2002-0313
Application No. 09/302,106
appear to be identical to those in Figure 3, merely represent
elements for connecting the printed circuit board to a housing
(specification, page 3, lines 18-21) again, without mentioning a
“host computer.” We also find that the shock absorbing material
is shown as element 318 positioned between printed circuit board
314 and traversing arm 320 which engages the shock absorbing
material (specification, page 6, lines 24-27). Similarly, Figure
4 depicts the shock absorbing material positioned between
multiple printed circuit boards and a traversing arm or along the
outer sides of the plurality of the printed circuit boards.
Appellants would have us require that the claimed shock
absorbing material be positioned between the host computer and
the printed circuit board without any intervening parts. We
decline to attribute such limited meaning to claim 1 since the
claim, as interpreted in light of the specification, does not
preclude the recited direct connection to the host computer to be
made through other intervening elements which are, in fact,
considered as part of the host computer. In other words,
Appellants do not disclose the type of direct connection in the
specification that Appellants now argue is absent in the prior
art and merely disclose the shock-absorbing material positioned
between the assembly and other elements that are somehow
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