Appeal No. 2003-2154
Application No. 09/735,895 Page 5
therewith or not being separately grouped. Consequently, we
select claims 1 and 15 as the representative claims on which we
shall decide this appeal.
Claims 1, 4, 5 and 7-14
Like the electrical connector called for in representative
claim 1, the examiner has determined that Gammel’s electrical
connector for a circuit board edge includes a housing (10) having
a slot (69). See, e.g., page 4 of the answer and figure 3 of
Gammel. A plurality of conductive contact bands (60) are
disposed within the slot of Gammel. The contact bands include a
plurality of projecting bumps (63, fig. 7). The examiner has
found that the projecting bumps of Gammel are electrically
engageable, at a plurality of different locations, with a
conductive member (circuit board) when the conductive member is
inserted into the slot. See, e.g., page 4 of the examiner’s
answer and figures 7-9 and column 3, lines 9-47 and column 4,
lines 36-50 of Gammel. Moreover, the contact bands (60) are
arranged on opposite sides of the slot of Gammel with the
projections (bumps) of a set of contacts on one side of the slot
projecting toward a set of the contact band projecting bumps on
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