Appeal No. 2004-0129
Application No. 09/230,720
In addition, as discussed supra, Spinner fails to disclose
that the actuators are participants in a decentralized
communications hardware structure. Further, although Flamm
states (column 5, line 66-column 6, line 1) that a "disadvantage
of a central drive control means is that all the desired value
data has to be led to the individual drives via the central drive
control means," Figure 1 shows that drive controllers 6 are
connected to drive control means 3 in a master-slave type of
configuration, and drive control means 3 are connected to control
unit 9 in a master-slave type of configuration. Therefore, Flamm
fails to cure the deficiencies of Spinner, and we cannot sustain
the rejection of claim 52.
7
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007