Appeal No. 2005-0255 Page 4
Application No. 10/190,475
matter is necessarily present in the thing described in the reference, and that it would be
so recognized by persons of ordinary skill. Inherency, however, may not be established
by probabilities or possibilities. The mere fact that a certain thing may result from a
given set of circumstances is not sufficient. See In re Robertson, 169 F.3d 743, 745, 49
USPQ2d 1949, 1950-51 (Fed. Cir. 1999).
Claim 13 reads as follows:
A contact piece comprising a first portion (3) for establishing a connection
to a wire (6) and a second portion (5) which is bent in a sleeve-like manner so
that it can be plugged onto a connecting piece (9) wherein the end of the bent
portion of the second portion (5) is not fixed to the opposite part of the second
portion (5), neither when the first portion (3) is connected to a wire (6), and
wherein the first portion (3) is connected to the second portion (5) via a flexible
web (7) so that the second portion (5) can be bent perpendicularly to its center
axis out of the line of alignment with the wire (6).
Swengel's invention relates to flag-type pre-insulated terminal devices for the
type which are intended for crimping onto the end of an insulated wire to produce a fully
insulated termination of the wire end. Figure 3 is a plan view of a sheet metal blank
from which a terminal 6 is formed. Terminals in accordance with Swengel's invention
are produced by stamping and forming of a continuous strip so that each terminal is
integral with a continuous carrier strip 3 and connected thereto by means of a
connecting section 5, as shown in Figure 3. Figure 2 is a perspective view of a housing
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