Appeal No. 2005-0187
Appeal No. 09/758,513
The scanning head 10 shown in FIG. 1 exhibits a
cylindrical housing 16, which is sealed against chips,
coolant and lubricant and similar disturbing
influences. The cable 14 for connecting to the
controller 12 is attached to the scanning head 10 by
means of a screwable connector 18. In the housing 16
there is an electric motor 20, which is designed as a
d.c. motor. The electric motor 20 is fed so as to
reverse the polarity by means of a motor driver 22,
disposed in the controller 12, via the cable 14. The
electric motor 20 drives by way of a precision tooth
gearing 24 a shaft 26, which is run coaxially on the
face side out of the housing 16. A double lip seal 28
seals the passage of the shaft 26 through the face-
sided cover of the housing 16 against chips and
coolant. O-ring seals 30 seal the respective face-
sided cover[s] of the cylindrical housing 16. A pin
holder 32, into which a feeler pin 34 can be clamped,
is clamped via a setscrew 36 on the stump of the shaft
26 that projects beyond the housing 16. The feeler pin
34 that is clamped into the pin holder 32 protrudes
radially from the shaft 26 [column 2, line 46, through
column 3, line 5].
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under principles of inherency,
each and every element of a claimed invention. RCA Corp. v.
Applied Digital Data Sys., Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ
385, 388 (Fed. Cir. 1984). In other words, there must be no
difference between the claimed invention and the reference
disclosure, as viewed by a person of ordinary skill in the field
of the invention. Scripps Clinic & Research Found. v. Genentech
Inc., 927 F.2d 1565, 1576, 18 USPQ2d 1001, 1010 (Fed. Cir. 1991).
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