Appeal No. 2004-1895
Application No. 09/681,515
a consequence of our review, we make the determination which
follows.
We cannot sustain any of the obviousness rejections on
appeal.
Independent claim 1 sets forth a vehicle differential
comprising, inter alia, a differential housing having two pressed
sheet metal halves, with a differential pinion carrier having end
journals received in corresponding, radially directed depressions
in the sheet metal halves. Independent claim 10 is drawn to an
arrangement for a vehicle differential comprising, inter alia, a
differential housing having two joinable sheet metal halves, with
at least one of the sheet metal halves having a depression formed
therein configured to accommodate reception of an end journal of
a differential pinion carrier therein.
As clearly articulated in the independent claims, the
present invention concerns a differential housing. The patent to
Lowe, somewhat akin to the acknowledged prior art (appellants’
specification, page 1), teaches a differential housing formed in
two halves. However, as recognized by the examiner (answer, page
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