Appeal No. 2002-2184
Application No. 08/406,297
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to a simplified ink jet head having a continuous body
of carbon to reduce temperature variations. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. An ink jet head comprising at least one member made of a
continuous body of carbon and having at least on ink passage and a
piezoelectric plate affixed to a surface of the carbon member.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Gordon, III 3,823,408 Jul. 09, 1974
Tanaka, et al. (Tanaka) 4,769,654 Sep. 06, 1988
Baker et al. (Baker) 4,771,295 Sep. 13, 1988
Hubbard et al. (Hubbard) 4,605,939 Aug. 12, 1986
Yasuhara et al. (Yasuhara) 4,937,597 Jun. 26, 1990
Shimizu et al. (Shimizu) 5,581,288 Dec. 03, 1996
(filed Mar. 05, 1993)
Komai et al. (Komai) JP 5-147209 Jun. 15, 1993
(Translation by USPTO May 2003)
Hawley’s Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 12th Edition, page 217 (1993). (Hawley)
Claims 1-10 and 22-24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph as
containing subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as
to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventors, at the time the
invention was made, had possession of the claimed invention. Claims 1-10 and 22-24
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