Appeal No. 2003-0527 Page 7
Application No. 09/036,291
jointed and are jointed to each other by arranging electrodes at the periphery around
the butted portion to be jointed." Col. 25, ll. 55-58. "The electrodes 4a to 4h are
connected to an electric power source 52 through switching terminals 51a to 51h of an
electrode switching member 51. A control member 54 receives a signal from a
detection member 53 for detecting the output voltage, electric current and electric
power of the electric power source 52." Col. 26, ll. 19-25. "The switching member 51
and the electric power source 52 are controlled by the output signal from the control
member 54 in accordance with the signal of th[is] dedection [sic]." Id. at ll. 28-31.
We are unpersuaded that the reference's detection member 53 or control
member 54 integrates an input voltage signal having a magnitude that represents the
magnitude of a bonding current, generates an output voltage signal having a magnitude
that represents the ongoing total amount of charge that has been furnished for bonding,
or halts the flow of the bonding current when the ongoing total amount of charge
exceeds a predetermined threshold. To the contrary, Okuda's "joining process is . . .
controlled by an electric power control pattern as shown in FIG. 2 (A)," id. at ll. 42-44,
wherein "[t]he[] electric power control pattern . . . [is] input in advance in the control
member 54 of the current supplying control apparatus 5 to be automatically controlled."
Col. 27, ll. 1-4. As shown in Figure 2(A), the electric power control pattern is defined in
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