Appeal No. 2005-2500 Application No. 09/893,399 the rack according to a predetermined order, and rails arranged to guide a tray drawing operation of the tray drawer device; a laminator for laminating the plurality of ceramic green sheets supplied by the sheet supplier; a conveyor device for picking up a single ceramic green sheet from a drawn tray and conveying the single ceramic green sheet to the laminator; a processor unit adapted to receive data concerning at least a type, an order in lamination, and a quantity of ceramic green sheets necessary for a laminate for a desired electronic monolithic component; the sheet supplier including a drive for driving the rack to be raised and lowered in a vertical direction; and the tray drawer device being arranged to draw a particular tray from the rack when, as a result of the rack being at least one of raised and lowered by the drive, the particular tray is positioned at a predetermined height. RIOR ART REFERENCES The prior art references relied upon by the examiner in support of the Section 103 rejection before us are: Baccini 6,109,323 Aug. 29, 2000 Yoshimura Hei 4-239604 Aug. 27, 1992 (Published Japanese patent application) Takane et al. (Takane) Hei 10-321457 Dec. 04, 1998 (Published Japanese patent application) REJECTION Claims 1, 3, and 5 through 9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as unpatentable over the combined disclosures of Yoshimura, Takane and Baccini. 4Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007