Appeal No. 2005-1194
Application No. 10/110,115
12. A measuring device for contactless detection of
an angle of rotation or a torsional rotation of a rotating
element (10), including a first resonator (2), a second
resonator (4), an exciter device (6), and a receiver device
(6), wherein the resonators (2, 4) have an essentially
circular circumference, and there is at least one protrusion
and/or one recess on the essentially circular circumference,
wherein the resonators (2, 4) are coplanar to one another
and rotatable relative to one another, and at least one
resonator is connected to the rotating element (10).
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Kishimoto 6,084,416 Jul. 4, 2000
Claims 12 through 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
as being anticipated by Kishimoto.
Claim 20 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Kishimoto.
Reference is made to the final rejection, the brief and the
answer for the respective positions of the appellants and the
examiner.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the entire record before us,
and we will sustain the anticipation rejection of claims 12
through 19, and sustain the obviousness rejection of claim 20.
Anticipation is established when a single prior art
reference discloses, expressly or under the principles of
inherency, each and every element of the claimed invention. RCA
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