Appeal No. 2005-2287
Application No. 09/767,588
used for effecting half-hardening of the strip spacer/seal
material, and liquid crystal material is injected from the
opening. Therefore, from this explanation in column 7 of Saito,
it appears that, contrary to appellants’ argument, there is an
injection hole present after application of a seal material and
liquid crystal is injected, or deposited, through that injection
hole after providing the sealing material but before applying the
end-sealing material.
Appellants point to column 8, lines 15-24, of Saito, for the
proposition that the seal material is deposited around the cell
gap and the strip spacer and that the liquid crystal has already
been injected when the seal material SL is deposited. While it
is true that seal material is applied to seal in the gap and the
liquid crystal material, this disclosure at column 8 of Saito is
an additional step. It does not contradict the disclosure of a
previous step, at the top of column 7, wherein the seal material
is also first placed on the outer edges of the strip spacer, and
that liquid crystal is injected through the injection hole after
this step. Additional seal material is applied, as disclosed in
column 8, for sealing in the liquid crystal, but the language of
the instant claims is still met by the disclosure of Saito.
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