Appeal No. 2004-0021 Page 9
Application No. 09/246,193
a detector aligned with said real grid pair and said imaginary grid pair and
mounted to said frame; and
a means for simultaneously rotating and translating said drive rod.
Oda does not disclose the following elements of claim 3: (1) a frame having a
disk guide and a rod guide; (2) a drive rod mounted in the rod guide of the frame; (3) a
first disk attached to an end of the drive rod; (4) a second disk rotationally guided by the
disk guide in the frame; (5) a connecting rod slidably mounted to the first disk and
attached to the second disk; and (6) means for simultaneously rotating and translating
the drive rod.2
We have reviewed the patents to Jeganathan and Sato but find nothing therein
which makes up for the deficiencies of Oda. Specifically, the combined teachings of
Oda, Jeganathan and Sato do not suggest the claimed "means for simultaneously
rotating and translating said drive rod."
For the reasons set forth above, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 3
to 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
2 The means clause clearly requires simultaneously rotation and translation of the drive rod.
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