Appeal No. 2004-0462
Application 09/915,861
power and all other electrical power from a single on-board
electrical power source. That power source is identified on page
2 of the specification as being “at least one fuel cell.”
Appellants note that the present invention provides a transport
refrigeration system with an electrical power system that
provides the entire motor and control system power for the
refrigeration system while at the same time meeting required
limited space limitations. Independent claims 1 and 5 are
representative of the subject matter on appeal, and a copy of
these claims can be found in the Appendix to appellants’ brief.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claim are:
Peschka 4,386,309 May 31, 1983
Lake et al. (Lake) 6,118,099 Sep. 12, 2000
Claims 1 through 8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Lake in view of Peschka.
Rather than reiterate the examiner's statement of the above-
noted rejection and the conflicting viewpoints advanced by the
examiner and appellants regarding the rejection, we make
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