Appeal No. 2005-0874
Application No. 10/320,073
sensor, a rotary drive motor, a rotary drive spindle, an exhaust
gas profile, and a wafer support (Answer, page 4).
During prosecution before the examiner, the claimed words
should be given the broadest reasonable meaning in their ordinary
usage as understood by one of ordinary skill in the art, taking
into account any guidelines or definitions found in the original
disclosure. See In re Morris, 127 F.3d 1048, 1054, 44 USPQ2d
1023, 1027 (Fed. Cir. 1997). Sugimoto discloses a rotary drive
motor (electric motor 1b in Figure 2); a rotary spindle coupled
to said motor (hollow rotary shaft 1a); and a heat regulating
element (air flow adjusting unit 50 in conjunction with the air
flow path defined around the spindle) with a fluid inlet, a fluid
outlet and a fluid conduit extending from said inlet to said
outlet. Although the word “fluid” is exemplified as a liquid in
the specification (page 9, second full paragraph), this word in
its ordinary usage may include both liquids and gases.1
Therefore a fluid inlet is disclosed by Sugimoto at 30a, the air
supply conduit inlet, with at least a fluid outlet at the top of
1See Hackh’s Chemical Dictionary, pp. 346-47, (Grant, ed.,
The Blakiston Co., Inc., 1953) (a copy is attached to this
decision).
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