Appeal No. 2005-2618
Application No. 10/060,494
loader as the claimed visually conveying information directly to
a human operator (answer, page 3). The Examiner further takes
the position that since a keyboard, usable by an operator, is
included, the information from the data card is communicated to
the operator (answer, page 4).
After reviewing Bonora, we remain unconvinced by the
Examiner’s position that the disclosed data card actually conveys
information visually and directly to a human operator in response
to instructions executed by a microprocessor. Bonora, in all the
Figures and as described in the relevant portions of the
disclosure, depicts data cards that communicate with
communication means installed on the equipment or the loader.
For example, Figure 10 shows the data card 232-1 in close
proximity of the communication means 236 for exchanging container
and processing information between two equipments (col. 8, lines
37-45). The information that is eventually conveyed to the
operator is through the processor and the keyboard or the display
on the equipment, i.e., the mobile loader stocker 110 (figures 4
& 11; col. 9, lines 1-19). Therefore, as pointed out by
Appellant, the data card of Bonora must send data through the
communication means 236 to a CPU and the display of the equipment
in order to convey any information to a human operator.
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