Appeal No. 2006-0600 5
Application No. 10/163,249
addressed the examiner’s stated position and reasons for the
proposed combination of Overby, Dawda and Cummings.
Dawda expressly indicates that the bushing therein “improves
the axial load capability of attachments of suspension members to
structural members of a motor vehicle” (abstract, lines 1-3), and
points out that the bushing apparatus “is useful for providing a
resilient, pivotal suspension attachment capable of sustaining many
cycles of considerable axial load without deteriorating the primary
isolation function of the bushing device” (col. 1, lines 7-11).
Overby involves the very type of suspension attachments that Dawda
indicates can be improved by using the bushing assembly described
therein. Cummings involves a form of vehicle shear mount used to
dampen vertical vibrations transmitted from the vehicle frame to
the body and which also provides good lateral shake control. As can
be seen in Figure 4, the bushing member (100) of Cummings includes
an insert member (30) entirely encompassed by the elastomeric
material of the bushing. The insert member (30), like that at (60)
of Dawda, is used to provide an increased degree of lateral
stiffness to the elastomeric bushing (note, col. 6, lines 1-6).
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